1. 131. KBAT – Political Geography 153. Analyzing Boundaries
132. Table of Contents 154. Key Issue 8.2: Why Do Boundaries
Between States Cause Problems?
133. Unit Preview
155. Power of Place – Supranationalism and
134. Nation and State
Devolution
135. Vocabulary Activity
156. Key Issue 8.3: Why Do States Cooperate
136. Definition List 1 With Each Other?
137. Student Created FRQ 157. Heartland-Rimland Theory
138. Key Issue 7.1: Where Are Ethnicities Distributed? 158. Key Issue 8.4: Why Has Terrorism
Increased?
139.
159. Practice FRQ
140. Key Issue 7.2: Why Have Ethnicities Been
Transformed into Nationalities? 160. Cornell Notes
141. Reading Notes - Nigeria
142. Key Issue 7.3: Why Do Ethnicities Clash?
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
143. Analyzing Ethnic Conflicts A. Territorial dimensions of politics
1. concept of territoriality
144. Analyzing Ethnic Conflicts 2. nature and meaning of boundaries
3. influences of boundaries on identities, interaction,
145. Darfur Now
and exchange
146. Key Issue 7.4: What Is Ethnic Cleansing? B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern
1. nation-state concept
147. Practice FRQ 2. colonialism and imperialism
3. federal and unitary states
148. Cornell Notes C. Challengers to political-territorial arrangements
1. changing nature of sovereignty
149. Vocabulary Activity
2. fragmentation, unification, alliance
150. Definition List 2 3. spatial relationships between political patterns and
patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment
151. D.W. Meinig’s Theory of Empires 4. electoral geography, including gerrymandering
152. Key Issue 8.1: Where Are States Located?
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