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| What is one of the most important long-term influences of a country? |
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| Global patterns of economic and political power |
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| When was the height of the colonial era? |
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| What two countries are the colonial scene latecomers? |
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| What laid the colonial map of Africa? |
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| Berlin conference (1884-1885) |
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| What two colonial empires built empires? |
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| What was Russia's internal weaknesses exposed by? |
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| Far East losses (Japan defeated Russian armies in Laos) |
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| A state can win concession or reciprocal agreements with other states through what? |
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| What crisis illustrates that one country's economic authority affects others? |
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| 1990's Asian economic crisis |
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| Who was the World-Systems Analysis created by? |
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| What is the World-System Analysis? |
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| Viewing states in relation to one another |
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| In 1450 there was the beginning development of what? |
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| Global Capitalist Economy |
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| What did the Global Capitalist Economy believe? |
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| The world is 3 basictiers |
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| What are the 3 basictiers? |
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| Global economic core, Periphery, Semi-periphery |
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| Where have the core-periphery theories become widely used? |
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| Political and Economic geography |
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| Who was the first political geographer to study what it means to control a particular space? |
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| What did Friedrich Ratzel postulate? |
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| What does the organic theory state? |
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| A state resembles a biological organism that has birth and death |
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| What is provided by acquisition of less powerful competitors' territories and their cultural contents in the Organic Theory? |
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| What is a state's essential, life-giving force in the Organic Theory? |
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| What is a subfield of political geography? |
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| What did geopolitics save? |
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| Who were Ratzel's students who translated his writings into practical politics? |
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| Who was a strong advocate of geopolitics and Hitler's associate? |
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| The study of spatial and territorial dimensions of power relationships of the past, present, and future |
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| Who published "The Geographical Pivot of History" which became one of the most widely intensely debated geographic publications? |
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| What did "The Geographical Pivot of History" contain? |
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| What laid at the heart of Eurasia according to in the book "The Geographical Pivot of History"? |
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| What was the resource-rich pivot area said to be according to "The Geographical Pivot of History"? |
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| The base for world conquest |
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| What was the pivot area renamed? |
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| What did the heartland become? |
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| What didn't Mackinder believe were the key to world domination? |
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| Who used the term rimland? |
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| What did Spykman, argue, held the key to global power? |
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| In Nicholas Spykman's book "The Geography of the Peace" whoever controls ___________ rules Eurasia and it also said whoever rules Eurasia controls the _____________________? |
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| The Rimland; Destinies of the world |
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| Nicholas Spykman is a what? |
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| What did the U.S. help Europe through? Japan through? |
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| Marshall Plan; enlightened postwar |
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| What was the world after WWII? |
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| What are the 4 potential foci of power on the World Island? |
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| Russia, Europe, China, United States |
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| Who defines power as "the capacity of a nation to use its tangible and intangible resources in such a way as to affect the behavior of other nations" in the book "The Might of Nations"? |
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| Over 1/2 the world's states have populations of what? |
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| 50 states in the world have how populations of what? |
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| Economies in West Europe and North America grow how much annually? |
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| How much does China's economy grow annually? |
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| At the beginning of the 21st century what country had the 3rd largest economy? |
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| T/F: There is no ideal population size for a state. |
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| What are the two important geographical clues to organizational character of a state? |
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| Nature of the state's core area and the size and function of the state's capital city |
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| What is one of the world's leading national cores centered on Tokyo? |
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| What is an example of an ancient core area, centered on Europe's greatest primate cities? |
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| What is the core area of Egypt? |
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| Cairo-Alexandria axis and Nile Delta |
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| What is the core area of Chile? |
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| Santiago (nucleo central) |
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| Is the United States a monocore or multicore state? |
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| Multicore (the East and the Northeast) |
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| How many core areas does Nigeria have and what are they? |
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| 3; North (Muslim heart), two south cores (center on 2 of its major population clusters) |
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| Where is the capital idea from? |
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| Nigeria moved its capital from where to where? |
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| Malaw moved its capital from where to where? |
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| Pakistan moved its capital from where to where? |
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| Malaysia is currently moving its capital from where to where? |
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| Kuala Cumpura to Putrajaya |
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| What are city changes to achieve national aims and to promote change? |
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| What does a well integrated state consist of? |
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| Territory, infastructure, administrative framework, core area, capital |
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| What was Paris divided into when the nation-state emerged? |
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| Where did people think of alternatives to the unitary system, and regionalism in Scotland and Wales to become a concern in London? |
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| T/F: Federalism accomodated all governments except national governments. |
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| Who described federalism as "the most geographically exressive of all political systems, based as it is on the existence and accomodation of regional differences...federation doesn't create unity out of diversity; rather, it enables the two to coexist."? |
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| What was the only genuine, long-term federation in Europe? |
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| The Australian capital didn't become Sydney or Melbourne but what did it become? |
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| What mirrored the unitary system? |
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| What was Britian's greatest success at a federal state? |
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| How many regions has France recognized which consist of groups of how many departments? |
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| Who seeks to understand how the spatial configuration of electoral districts and voting patterns that emerge in particular elections reflect and influence social and political affairs? |
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| What are the 4 voting influences? |
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| Church, Income, Ethnicity, Education |
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| What is the most practical area of electoral geography? |
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| Geography of representation |
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| How many seats are in the United States House of Representatives? |
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| After the 1990 census, the U.S. government instructed states with substantial minority populations to construct what? |
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| Majority-minority district |
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| Majority-minority districts would create the election of atleast 1 what? |
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| 1 African American and 1 Hispanic Representative among the districts |
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| Salamander looking district in Massachusetts signed by Governor Elbridge Gerry and drawn by Gilbery Stuart |
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| What is Gerrymander used to describe? |
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| Redistricting for advantage |
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| What are forces that promote unity with states? |
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| When did Nigeria become independent? |
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| When Nigeria became independent what was created? |
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| 3 regions and another 1 added |
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| How many states are there now in Nigeria? |
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| What is one way to accomplish nationalism throughout everybody? |
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| To ensure that minorities are represented in government |
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| What is the 2nd centripetal force? |
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| The leadership of a charismatic individual who personifies the state and captures public's imagination |
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| What may follow that demise of a leader? |
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| A weakening of nationalist sentiment |
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| What is the 3rd centripetal force? |
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| Real or perceived external threat |
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| What is the 4th centripetal force? |
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| Education and national institutions |
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| What is related to institutional force? |
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| What was an extreme example of National ideology? |
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| What is a national building factor? |
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| When a population is mobile, moving to and from parts of a country and diffusing national norms in the process, what two things often decline? |
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| Regionalism and Separation |
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| What must all state deal with? |
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| Divise or centrifugal forces |
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| When centrifugal forces outweigh centripetal forces the state is in danger of what? |
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| What are ethnic minorities challenges, development of new networks of communication, state lines, and regional inequalities all examples of? |
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