PGE - Political Geography Review Lesson

Political Geography Review Lesson

Review the lesson material below. Use the following study guide, along with your key terms list, to prepare for the module test.

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Ethnicity and Political Geography

  • Boundaries
    • Antecedent
    • Subsequent
    • Superimposed
    • Cultural
    • Geometric
    • Physical
    • Relic
  • Types of boundary disputes
    • Locational
    • Allocational
    • Definitional
    • Operational
  • Steps of boundary creation 
  • World-Analysis Theories
    • Heartland Theory
    • Rimland Theory
    • Organic Theory
    • Irredentism
  • Steps of boundary creation 
  • World-Analysis Theories
    • Heartland Theory
    • Rimland Theory
    • Organic Theory
    • Irredentism
  • North-South divide
  • US Electoral System
    •  Reapportionment
    • Gerrymandering
  • Enclave vs. Exclave (examples)
  • European Union
    • Purpose
    • Membership
    • Current issues with admittance/exits
  • Territorial Morphology
    • Perforated
    • Prorupted
    • Elongated
    • Fragmented
    • Compact
    • Landlocked
  • Apartheid
  • Federal vs. unitary government
  • Economic Systems
    • Communism
    • Socialism
    • Capitalism
    • Mercantilism
  • Race vs. Ethnicity vs. Nationality
  • State (examples)
    • Sovereignty
  • Nation (examples)
  • Multinational vs. Multiethnic
  • Nation-state (examples)
  •  Origins of state building
  • Most volatile ethnic conflicts
    • Middle East (Palestine)
    • Africa (Dem. Republic of Congo / Sudan)
    • Indonesia (East Timor)
    • Genocide vs ethnic cleansing
  • Cold War
    • Causes
    • Superpowers
    • Conflicts
    • Containment
    • East-West divide
  • NAFTA
    • Purpose
    • Membership
  • Colonialism
    • European nations in control
    • Areas being controlled
    • Time frame
    • Compare to imperialism
    • Effects on indigenous people (Americas and Africa)
    • Decolonization
    • Neocolonialism
    • Examples
  •  Democratization
  • Centrifugal force vs. centripetal force
  • UN Exclusive Economic Zone vs. UN Territorial Seas vs. High Seas
  • Balkanization
  • Shatterbelt vs. Buffer Zone
  • Supranational vs. International Organizations (examples)
  • US Census Race designations
  • Race relations in the US / Locations in the US
  • Movement of African Americans (three points in history)

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