Name: KEY

Period: Political Geography

Identify: Imperialism Colonialism Microstate State Sovereignty Frontier

Unitary State Federal State Gerrymandering Landlocked State Colony

_MICROSTATE__ Monaco is an example of this.

__LANDLOCKED STATE__ Example: `

_IMPERILAISM___ Control of a territory already settled by an indigenous group.

_STATE___ Geographic word for country.

__FRONTIER__ A zone separating two states in which neither has control.

__UNITARY STATE___ A state that places most power in the hands of a central government.

_FEDERAL STATE___ Example: The United States

_GERRYMANDERING___Legislative redrawing of boundaries to win future elections.

_SOVEREIGNTY__Ability of a state to govern without control from other states.

_COLONY___ Example: Massachusetts before the Revolutionary War.

__COLONIALISM__ Foreign power controlling a mainly uninhabited land.

What do the “Three Gs” of European colonialism represent?

God: THE SPREAD OF CHRSITIANITY

Gold: TO EXTRACT REASOURCES AND SERVE AS MARKETS FOR PRODUCTS

Glory: TO ESTABLICH POWER THROUGH THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF THEIR COLONIES

For each of the following countries, identify the state shape. Lesotho Poland

COMPACT COMPACT

Vietnam Azerbaijan

ELONGATED FRAGMENTED

Chile Congo

ELONGATE PRORUPTED

Elongated

Advantage SOMETIMES STATES ARE ELONGATED TO CONTROL REGIONS WHICH THEY WOULD NOT OTHER WISE HAVE ACCESS TO.

Disadvantage POOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

Prorupted

Advantage CONTROL OF CITIES, RESOURCES, OR TO KEEP CONFLICTING NATIONS FROM SHARING A BORDER. Disadvantage CAN SOMETIMES CAUSE CONFLICT WITH OTHERS WHO DESIRE RESOURCES, CITIES, ETC.

Perforated

Advantage ENORMOUS COUNTROL OVER ENCLAVE STATE

Disadvantage LACKS THE RESOURCES OVE THE ENCLAVE STATE

Fragmented

Advantage ETHNIC COHESION, MORE LAND AREA CONTROLLED

Disadvantage DISTANCE AND BARRIERS CAN CREATE ISOLATION

Compact

Advantage DISTANCE FROM CENTER DOES NOT GREATLY VARY

Disadvantage NONE

List three physical boundaries in political geography.

DESERT, MOUNTAIN , WATER (OCEAN, RIVER, SEA)

List three cultural boundaries, and give an example of each:

GEOMETRIC BOUNDARIES – US BORDER WITH CANADA

RELIGIOUS – MUSLIM PAKISTAN AND HINDU INDIA

LANGUAGE – EUROPEAN STATES

How did the word “gerrymander” come to be?

ELBRIDGE GERRY WAS THE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM 1810-1812. WHEN AN OBSERVER NOTED THAT HIS ODDLY SHAPED DISTRICTS LOOKED LIKE SALAMANDERS, AN OPPONENT RESPOMNNDED THAT IT WAS NOT A SLAMANDEWR BUT A GERRYMANDER.

What two superpowers shared a balance of power from 1945-1991?

THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION

After this two state balance of power, what are two keys to modern global power patterns? (p.259)

1. POWER IS CENTERED MORE AROUND ECONOMICS THAN MILITARY IINFLUENCE

2. THE LEADING ECONOMIC POWER IS A UNION OF STATES RATHER THAN A SINGLE STATE

Describe the terror attacks against the US on the following dates:

Dec. 21, 1988: LOCKERBIE BOBMER KILLED 259 WHEN DESTROYING PAN AM FLIGHT 259

Feb. 26, 1993: WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBED, 6 KILLED, 1,000 INJURED April 19, 1995: CAR BOMB KILLED 165 PEOPLE IN OKLAHOMA CITY

June 25, 1996: TRUCK BOMB KILLED 19 SOLDIERS IN SAUDI ARABIAN APARTMENTS

Aug. 7, 1998: US EMBASSIES IN KENYA AND TANZANIA BOMBED: 190 DEAD, 5,000 INJURED

Oct. 12, 2000: USS COLE BOMBED IN YEMEN, KILLING 17 SERVICEMEN

Sept. 11, 2001: AL-QUEDA COORDINATED ATTACK ON PENTAGON, WTC, AND FLIGHT 93, 3,000 KILLED

1. What terrorist group(s) are linked to the country?

2. Name a terrorist attack carried out by that group with the support of the country

Nov.15, 2009: Fort Hood a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. (work place violence)