Unit IV: Political Organization

Stateframeworks/Common Core Framworks Covered:

WHII39,WHII17,WHII19,WHII21,WHII23,WHII25,WHII30,USII6,USII33,USG1.3,USG4.7, USG4.1,USG3.12,USG4.3

CCS. RH. 9-10. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

CCS. WHST. 1a,b,c,d,e., 2a,2b, 2d,2e,2f., 4,5,6,7,8,9,10

A Vocabulary List for AP Human Geography /Martha Sharma /Retired teacher /Hilton Head, South Carolina

Unit IV. Political Organization of Space—Basic Vocabulary and Concepts

Annexation

Antarctica

Apartheid

Balkanization

Border landscape

Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)

Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)

Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)

Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)

Buffer state

Capital

Centrifugal

Centripetal

City-state

Colonialism

Confederation

Conference of Berlin (1884)

Core/periphery

Decolonization

Devolution

Domino theory

EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)

Electoral regions

Enclave/exclave

Ethnic conflict

European Union

Federal

Forward capital

Frontier

Geopolitics

Gerrymander

Global commons

Heartland/rimland

Immigrant states

International organization

Iron Curtain

Irredentism

Israel/Palestine

Landlocked

Law of the Sea

Lebanon

Mackinder, Halford J.

Manifest destiny

Median-line principle

Microstate

Ministate

Nation

National iconography

Nation-state

Nunavut

Raison d’être

Reapportionment

Regionalism

Religious conflict

Reunification

Satellite state

Self-determination

Shatterbelt

Sovereignty

State

Stateless ethnic groups

Stateless nation

Suffrage

Supranationalism

Territorial disputes

Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated)

Territoriality

Theocracy

Treaty ports

UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

Unitary

USSR collapse

Women’s enfranchisement