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An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory
A territory that has established a mutual agreement with another state for the benefit of each (e.g. Puerto Rico)
An enclosed territory with a foreign territory around it (e.g. Lesotho)
A part of a country that is separated from the rest of the country and surrounded by a foreign territory
A zone separating two states in which neither of the states exercises political control (e.g. Antarctica)
A theory that suggests that whoever owns Eastern Europe and Western Asia has the political power and capital to rule the world
The control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society
The process in which a colonizing mother country receives raw materials from its colonies
A group of people with common cultural characteristics and identify themselves as a cohesive group (e.g. Kurds)
A state whose territory corresponds to that which is occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality (e.g. Japan)
The continued economic dependence of new states on their former colonial masters
The theory that a state needs expansive land in order to prosper
The total number of people divided by the total land area
A complete enumeration of a population
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease that affect large numbers of people
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion to independent supplies
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis
Migration from a location
Migration to a new location
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration
Factor that induces people to move to a new location
Factor that induces people to leave old residences
Region of great cities (e.g Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth, dating to 3500 BCE, and which as founded in the Fertile Crescent
literally "high point of the city." The upper fortified part of an ancient Greek city, usually devoted to religious purposes
in ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded
the focal point of ancient roman life combining the functions of the ancient greek acropolis
in model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy
a subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls
legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas. In the U.S., areas are most commonly divided into separate zones of residential, retail, or industrial use
a discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods
the transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity
a country's largest city- ranking atop the urban hierarchy- most expressive of the national culture and usually (but not always) the capital city as well

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