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Organizations
Mine! Mine!
Capitals and nations
States and cities
The force is strong with this one
100
reduced tarrifs in Europe
What is EU?
100
Reasons for colonization
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
100
A nationality that is not represented by a state.
What is stateless nation?
100
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
What is state?
100
forces that tend to divide a country
What is Centrifugal?
200
a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives, an example would be the EU
What is Supranational Organization
200
Country that took over the most African countries
What is Great Britain?
200
A capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. A forward capital is sometimes used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state. An example would be Brasília
What is Forward Capital?
200
A state that is not contiguous whole but rather separated parts.
What is Fragmented State?
200
A state that is completely surrounded by land and borders no water
What is landlocked?
300
Economic agreement entered into by Canada, Mexico and the United States in December, 1992 and which took effect on January 1, 1994 to eliminate the barriers to trade in, and facilitate the cross border movement of goods and services between the countries
What is NAFTA?
300
The reason why many cultural groups were divided among different nations in Africa
What is European Imperialism?
300
Washington D. C. is an example of this type of capital city
What is National Administrative Center?
300
An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group, an example would be Japan
What is Nation-State?
300
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. An example is Antarctica.
What is frontier?
400
an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
What is United Nations
400
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
What is Colony?
400
Transfer of central to regional government systems
What is Devolution?
400
conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. Most major ones are located near rivers or seacoasts
What are cities?
400
to divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections
What is gerrymander?
500
International organization that the US never joined
What is League of Nations?
500
government free from external control
What is sovereignty?
500
occur when states disagree about the interpretation of documents that define a boundary and/or the way a boundary was delimited (set). Such disputes typical arise when the boundary is antecedent (something that existed before). example Argentina and Chile
What is positional boundary dispute?
500
a state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions
What is compact state?
500
pull factor/ unifying force
What is Centripetal Force?