Political geography
Synonymous with a country includes 5 distinct characteristics. No, it is not the same as Texas, or California.
What is a State?
Human imprint on the environment. Language, architecture, religious symbols, land-use, urbanization, energy sources, etc.
What is cultural landscape?
The largest state in the western hemisphere. Includes Arctic tundras in the north and 90% of its population is clustered within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
What is Canada?
Berlin Conference 1884-85 is also known as this. A time perion when European empires "ran around" the largest continent claiming coastal and inland territories.
What is the scramble for Africa?
software used to create layers of geographic information (vegitation, buildings, annexed land)
Number of nation-states around the time of U.S. independence (1776). Number of countries today.
What is 35 and ~197?
Successive cultures visible cultural imprint on the environment over time.
What is sequent occupancy?
A sovereign Nation-state, this South American country has the largest oil reserves in the world. Borders Columbia, Brazil and Guyana with the Caribbean sea to the north.
What is Venezuela?
Powerful countries exerting economic, political and cultural power over developing countries with little to no military intervention.
What is neocolonialism?
Theory behind population and food production is called this.
What is Malthusian theory?
Between 1950 and 1971 this government was recognized by the international community as a state; but has since been considered a "renegade province" by China and other countries which puts its status as a state in question.
What is Taiwan?
This term is used when a country claims territory on another state or area and uses the military to protect the interest of the colonizing country in foreign land.
What is colonialism?
Identify at least 2 Eastern European countries which were part of former Yugoslovia but became their own independent nation-states after the balkanization process.
What is Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzgovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro?
Conflict between cultural forces and political forces leads to this fragmentation of nation-states. Examples include religious conflicts in Israel, and Pakistan. ideological conflicts in Eastern Europe, Vietnam and Korea.
What are shatterbelts?
The amount of resources per people is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
Yugoslavia with diverse nations led to devolution and inevitable collapse. Factors such as ethnic separatism, desire for self-determination, and the collapse of communism in 1991 led to this process which now lends it name to the break up of a multi-national state.
What is the Balkanization?
Wahgwaan, Ya Mon. A dominant language mixing with an indigenous language. Ex.): Jamaican creole (patois).
What is creolization?
Country in South Asia with the largest population in the world. Predominant religion is Hinduism and language spoken is Hindi, but English is the official state language. Other languages spoken Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi and several others.
What is India?
Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Bospurus, Suez canal, all strategic passages for global commerce, energy, and geopolitical relations. This term is used when those areas are leveraged by governing regional powers negatively impacting global trade.
What are chokepoints?
The feeling that the world is getting smaller because of improvements to transportation and communication.
What is time-space compression?
Exerting influence (political and economic) onto smaller nations is an example of this term. A country's desire to become an extensive empire.
What is imperialism?
2 theories behind human-environmental interactions. They differ in the degree to which environment impacts human activities.
What is environmental determinism and possibilism?
When a country allows centralized power to broken up into smaller governments.
What is devolution?
Connecting the people, their economy and their culture to the land is known as this. Defense of the territory, delimiting the boundaries with borders and walls.
What is territoriality?
a geographical principle stating that interaction between two locations decreases as the distance between them increases. Driven by the "friction of distance" (cost, time, effort). Closer places interact more frequently than distant ones, influencing trade, migration, and cultural diffusion
What is distance decay?