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1
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Balance of power

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Big nations have equal power

2
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Berlin conference

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Regulation of European colonization in Africa

3
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Boundary

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A line dividing a state

4
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Capital

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Big city of a state

5
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City state

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City with farmland surrounding for protection

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Colonialism

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Creation of new state while still connected to other state

7
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Colony

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a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

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Compact state

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Circular state with capital in middle

9
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Democratization

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the action of making something accessible to everyone

10
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Devolution

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the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration

11
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Elongated state

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Long narrow territory

12
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Fragmented state

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State split by physical features

13
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Federal state

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State under rule of many govs

14
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Frontier

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Line separating countries

15
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High seas

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the open ocean, especially that not within any country’s jurisdiction.

16
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Gerry mander

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Manipulate borders in favors of your beliefs

17
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Imperialism

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Expanding countries power by military force

18
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Irredentism

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Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to reclaim and reoccupy a land that the movement’s members consider to be a “lost” territory from their nation’s past

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Law of the sea

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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty, is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place between 1973 and 1982

20
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Land locked

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Entirely surrounded by land

21
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Micro state

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State that has small area or population

22
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Perforated state

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State that is generally compact but have a wing or protruding point

23
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Prorupted state

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State that surrounds another

24
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Super national organization

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Organization with many states coneected to support (UN)

25
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Terrorism

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Act of violence against ordinary people

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Unitary state

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State with one central gov