Essential Questions
1. What is ethnicity?
2. What is race?
3. How does a person's ethnicity or race affect where they choose to live?
4. What is modern segregation?
5. How do ethnicity and nationality lead to conflict between people?
6. Why do people engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?
7. What are the different kinds of boundaries?
8. Why do we have political boundaries?
9. How does the type of government affect the development of a country?
10. How are geography and boundaries related to wars?
11. What is the difference between a nation, state and nation-state?
12. How does the United Nations affect the world?
13. How is a territory different from a state?
14. How does terrorism affect different parts of the world?
Learning Targets
1. I can explain differences between ethnicity and race.
2. I can use data to evaluate how people cluster because of ethnicity and race.
3. I can explain how and why conflicts arise among people of different ethnicities.
4. I can describe ethnic cleansing and genocide and investigate why it happens.
5. I can explain the difference between nations, states and nation-states.
6. I can explain how political boundaries are related to states.
7. I can analyze the difficulty in creating a nation-state.
8. I can predict how physical and cultural boundaries cause problems between people.
9. I can describe the five shapes of states.
10. I can explain how geopolitical organizations affect states.
Essential Vocabulary
ethnicity
race
ethnic clustering
triangular slave trade
migration
white flight
segregation
apartheid
nationality
ethnic competition
ethnic cleansing
genocide
state
sovereignty
United Nations
city-state
nation-state
self-determination
multiethnic state
multinational state
colonialism
physical boundaries
cultural boundaries
compact states
prorupted states
elongated states
fragmented states
perforated states
landlocked states
democracy
autocracy
anocracy
gerrymandering
Cold War
NATO
European Union
terrorism