Cultural Patterns
Same language, ethnicity and religion in an area full of people, uniting them together.
What is a centripetal force?
the practice of drawing political district boundaries to give one party or group an unfair advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
A thematic map that shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area.
What is a choropleth map?
Successive societies leaving their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to a cumulative cultural landscape.
What is sequent occupance?
The transfer of power and authority from a central government to regional or local governments.
What is devolution?
a map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes.
the state or policy of a society having a single, dominant, or unified culture.
What is uniculturalism?
a country establishing settlements and imposing its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. (the action to do so)
What is colonialism?
A map that uses symbols (such as circles or dots) of different sizes to represent numerical values.
What is a graduated circle map?
the blending of different cultural, religious, or philosophical beliefs and practices to form new, unique cultures.
What is syncretism?
a political and nationalist ideology where a country or group claims a territory in another country.
What is irredentism?
The shrinking of distance between places due to technology making it faster to communicate and travel.
What is time-space convergence?
the concept of a group or individual's connection, claim, and assertion of control over a specific geographic area.
What is territoriality?