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GeoTerms
GeoTerms
This is an imaginary line that separates two political entities.
What is a boundary?
This is a boundary which is approximately equal distance from a central point in all directions.
What is a compact boundary?
This is when one country rules other places as colonies, with the ruling country controlling trade with its colonies for its own benefit.
What is colonialism?
This is a political unit that controls a particular territory. It has a defined territory, a permanent population, a sovereign government, and is recognized by other states.
What is a state?
In 1492, he "discovered" the New World, beginning the Age of Exploration and launching a new era of colonialism.
Who was Columbus?
This is the movement of humans from one place to another.
What is migration?
This is a boundary that is significantly longer in one direction than another.
What is an elongated boundary?
This is the second phase of European colonialism in which states sought colonies for resources necessary for industrialization, outlets for overpopulation, and markets for their goods.
What is imperialism?
This is a a sovereign state, or country, whose people mostly share a common identity.
What is a nation-state?
This was an event in the late 19th century in which European countries rushed to lay claim to their newly allotted territories on the continent of Africa.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
This is a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries, especially their political affairs.
What is isolationism?
This is a boundary that separates a political entity into multiple discontinuous pieces of territory.
What is a fragmented boundary?
This was a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa.
What was Apartheid?
This is a principle in international law that each state has exclusive sovereignty over its own territory.
What is the Westphalian System?
This was the division of British controlled India into four independent countries: India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Burma. Between 12 and 18 million people were displaced, and nearly one million people died as a result of this event.
What was the Partition of India?
This is a group of people who share a unique culture and identity.
What is an ethnic group?
This is a boundary that has a long extension that protrudes from the main boundary of a political entity.
What is a prorupted boundary?
This is the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
What is decolonization?
This term means possessing supreme or independent political power.
What is sovereignty?
This was a conference held by European countries held in Germany from 1884 to 1885. It was at this conference that the major European powers divided up Africa between themselves.
What was the Berlin Conference?
This is the idea that people who share the same ethnicity should be united under the rule of one single country or state.
What is ethnic-nationalism?
This is a boundary of a political entity that contains another, autonomous political entity entirely within its borders.
What is a perforated boundary?
This was a period of significant technological and scientific progress that transformed society from being dominated by agriculture and hand crafted goods to being dominated by industry and machine manufacturing, resulting in an increased demand for natural resources.
What was the industrial revolution?
This war ended with a series of treaties which are collectively known as the Peace of Westphalia.
What is The Thirty Years War?
This was the secret agreement made by France and the British on how to divide up the lands controlled by the Ottomans when the First World War came to an end.
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?