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Extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, was the location of the first city-states in the Middle East, followed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and is sometimes considered to be extended into the Nile Valley.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
100
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
100
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
What is Nationality?
100
After separate but equal laws were designated to be unconstitutional, whites left neighborhoods where they believed blacks would now move into.
What is "White Flight?"
100
A small geographic area that can not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by many ethnicities who hate of each other
What is Balkanized.
200
The largest state in the world.
What is Russia?
200
A state that easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state.
What is a Compact State.
200
The only large land mass that is not part of a sovereign state.
What is Antartica?
200
A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent.
What is a Colony?
200
An area organized into an independent political unit.
What is a State?
300
It is an area rather than a line.
How is a frontier different from a boundary.
300
A boundary between two states that are geometric and also a water boundary.
What is the boundary between Canada and the United States?
300
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is a Centripetal Force?
300
Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas in South Africa.
What is an Apartheid?
300
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
What is Self-determination?
400
A group of people who occupy a particular area and have a strong sense of unity based on a set of shared beliefs.
What is a Nation?
400
Geographical centers of activity.
What is a Node?
400
The market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves.
What is a hinterland?
400
Person who has left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas.
What is an exurbanite?
400
A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900's that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations.
What is the Central Place Theory?
500
The physical form of a city or urban region.
What is Urban Morphology?
500
Trend of middle- and upper-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods.
What is Gentrification?
500
This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments.
What is beaux arts?
500
The geographical area that contains the space an individual interacts with on a daily basis.
What is action space?
500
The process of expansive suburban development over large areas spreading out from a city, in which the automobile provides the primary source of transporation.
What is an urban sprawl?