AP Human Geography-Chapter 8 Review Questions

A state is an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

A country with its own nationality and land.

Sovereignty means independence from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Gerrymandering is the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Korea.

Russia

A nation-state is a state with very small land areas with its own sovereign rule.

In the time of Ancient Mesopotamia.

A colony is a territory that is legally tied to a soverign state rather than being complete independent.

A city-state is a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside. Monaco.

Antarctica.

• -To promote Christianity
• -To extract useful resouces and to serve as captive markets for their products
• -To establish relative power through the number of their colonies.

Imperialism is control of terrytory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. Colonialism is the effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory.

It was the largest colonial empire.

• -Physical features of a region. (River, etc.)
• -Cultural dividers of region. (Language, etc.)

The 49 N latitude line.

A frontier is a zone where no state exercises complete political control.