APHUG Vocabulary

is the ability to rule within a territory.

• Population

• Territory

• Sovereignty

• Government

a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory

• Unitary State

• Nation

• State

• Cultural Boundary

Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines

• Geometric Boundary

• Cultural Boundary

• Relic Boundary

• Natural Boundary

A boundary accompanied by a physical boundary such as a sign or walls is best characterized as...

• delimited

• demarcated

• militarized

• relic

A boundary drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic or economic differences.

• militarized

• consequent

• Open

• delimited

Boundary placed on an area by a conquering or colonizing power that in unconcerned about pre-existing cultural patterns. It ignores the existing cultures and is usually established by a higher authority to satisfy the demands of a super power.

• Cultural

• Superimposed

• Subsequent

• Relic

• Antecedent

The development of a worldwide economy where resources flow fairly freely across borders

• Globalization

• transcontinental

• coup

• subsequent borders

The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another is known as:

• A) Cultural Diffusion

• B) Cultural Assimilation

• C) Cultural Integration

• D) Cultural Isolation

A region defined by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena is known as a:

• A) Functional Region

• B) Formal Region

• C) Perceptual Region

• D) Vernacular Region

The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities is called:

• A) Balkanization

• B) Devolution

• C) Federalism

• D) Unification