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Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state
Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.
Separation of public life based on race; Laws established in the US Southern states after slavery and in effect until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Forced migration of blacks into "homelands"; Established in South Africa after independence from the British Empire and in effect until the 1990s.
An East African country of 12 million with its capital at Kigali; Site of a 1994 genocide in which the majority Hutu ethnic group attempted to murder all the minority Tutsi ethnic groups.
The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
A force that divides people and countries.
A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.
A politically organized area in which a nation occupies nation and state occupy the same place
a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly (mongolia and kenya)
A state which is broken into pieces not attached to the rest of the state.
an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
a state that completely surrounds another one
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
is any portion of a state that is entirely surrounded by the territory of a single other state
is a portion of a state geographically separated from the main part by surrounding territory
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
A venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives.
that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world-Halford Mackinder

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Civics Vocabulary

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What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

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