AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 4.2 Flashcards

An organized political territory with a permanent population, defined territory, government, and sovereignty

A state’s authority to govern its territory and population independently

Internal sovereignty is authority to make and enforce laws within a state; external sovereignty is independence from control by other states

A conventional starting point for the modern state system and the principle that territorial states govern their own internal affairs

A population united by a shared identity and attachment to a homeland

A sovereign state whose territory corresponds closely to the homeland and population of one nation

Loyalty to and identification with a nation, often including the belief that its interests should receive political expression

The principle that a people sharing a common identity should help determine its own political status and government

The process by which a state extends political, economic, military, or cultural power over other territories and peoples

A form of imperialism in which an outside state directly controls a territory as a colony

The European conquest and division of most of Africa into colonies whose boundaries largely reflected imperial interests rather than African identities

A meeting where European powers, without African participation, formalized rules that accelerated and regulated colonial expansion in Africa

An organized effort to end foreign or imperial rule and establish self-government

The process by which colonial rule ends and a colony becomes an independent sovereign state

The division of British India at independence into India and Pakistan, producing mass migration, violence, and new minorities because populations were intermixed

The transfer of political authority from a central government to regional or local governments, sometimes along national lines

The removal of a territory from an existing state to create a new sovereign state

The end of an existing state and its replacement by multiple successor states