Boundaries
This type of boundary follows natural features like mountains or rivers.
What is a physical boundary?
A system where citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
What is democracy?
This state shape is considered efficient because distances from the center are similar.
What is a compact state?
This region in Southwest Asia is where the earliest states developed.
What is the fertile crescent?
This term refers to a state's independence from outside control.
What is sovereignty?
This is an invisible line marking the extent of a state’s territory.
What is a boundary?
A government run according to the interests of a single ruler (dictator).
What is an autocracy?
This kind of state has no access to a sea or ocean.
What is a landlocked state?
These early states consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside.
What are city-states?
This organization was created in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This type of boundary is drawn using straight lines with no regard to physical or cultural features.
What is a geometric boundary?
A government that mixes democratic and autocratic features.
What is anocracy?
This state completely surrounds another state.
What is a perforated state?
This is the process of one country establishing settlements and imposing its rule on another territory.
What is colonialism?
This type of state contains multiple ethnic groups with traditions of self-rule.
What is a multinational state?
This type of boundary is based on shared cultural traits like language or religion.
What is a cultural boundary?
A system where power is shared between national and regional governments.
What is a federal state?
This state shape includes a compact area with a projecting extension.
What is a prorupted state?
This term refers to dividing land into parts to be ruled by different governments.
What is partition?
These two countries were the main Superpowers of The Cold War.
What are the US and the Soviet Union?
These areas are often sources of conflict because multiple states claim them.
What is a disputed territory?
The powers shared by state governments and the national government in federalism.
What are concurrent powers?
EX: The United States of America would be considered this kind of state.
What is a fragmented state?
If ______ is the cause, ______ is the effect that leads to stronger nations invading weaker ones.
True or False. Ukraine is apart of NATO
False.