|1. |At the global scale, political geographers study the spatial manifestations of political processes expressed in the organization|
| |of territories with permanent population, defined territory and a government. These spatial units are called |
|A) |countries. |
|B) |states. |
|C) |nations. …show more content…
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|D) |regions.
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|2. |The present number of countries and territories in the world is around |
|A) |400. |
|B) |350. |
|C) |300. …show more content…
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|D) |200. |
|3. |In The Territorial Imperative, Robert Ardrey argued that humans are concerned with |
|A) |collecting and securing territory. |
|B) |concerned only with the securing of food. |
|C) |avoiding confrontation with different groups. |
|D) |unconcerned with securing territory. |
|4. |Robert Sack's view of human territorial behavior implies an expression of control over space and time. This control is closely |
| |related to the concept of |
|A) |nationhood. |
|B) |colonialism. |
|C) |sovereignty. |
|D) |warfare.
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|5. |The Peace of Westphalia is the seminal moment in the emergence of the European state. This marked the end of |
|A) |WW I. |
|B) |the Thirty Years War. |
|C) |the Napoleonic Wars. |
|D) |the War of the Roses. |
|6. |The promotion of the acquisition of wealth through plunder, colonization, and the protection of home industries and foreign |
| |markets during Europe's rebirth was called |
|A) |imperialism.
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|B) |neo-imperialism. |
|C) |mercantilism. |
|D) |new colonialism. |
|7. |What ultimately proved to be the undoing of monarchical absolutism and its system of patronage during Europe's rebirth? |
|A) |the re-emergence of church power |
|B) |growing economic power of merchants |
|C) |an increasing population |
|D) |colonization |
|8. |The rise of the modern state idea, where territory defined society rather than society defining territory, swept through Europe |
| |in the |
|A) |Middle Ages. |
|B) |1600s. |
|C) |1800s. |
|D) |Twentieth Century. |
|9. |When not all people within a state identify with the dominant sense of nationality, movements for separation of nation and |
| |territory may arise. For example the ______in ___________. |
|A) |English, Great Britain |
|B) |Basques, Spain |
|C) |Waloons, Belgium |
|D) |Irish, Ireland |
|10. |Yugoslavia was a prime example of a |
|A) |multi-state nation. |
|B) |nation-state. |
|C) |stateless nation. |
|D) |multi-nation state. |
|11. |Which is an example of a stateless-nation? |
|A) |Korea |
|B) |Kurds |
|C) |Hungary |
|D) |Switzerland |
|12. |The European state idea spread throughout the world through |
|A) |European colonialism. |
|B) |economic development. |
|C) |League of Nations planning. |
|D) |contagious diffusion. |
|13. |One of the most powerful impacts of colonialism was the construction of global order characterized by great differences in |
|A) |population. |
|B) |military and political power. |
|C) |economic and political power. |
|D) |military and economic power. |
|14. |The highly uneven distribution of economic and political power that developed from colonialism was due to the concentration of |
| |wealth brought to |
|A) |North America. |
|B) |Europe. |
|C) |Asia. |
|D) |Europe and North America. |
|15. |Wallerstein's views expressed in world systems theory hold that the global integrating force has been |
|A) |capitalism. |
|B) |the rise of the U.N. |
|C) |socialism. |
|D) |colonial independence movements. |
|16. |The emergence of a global capitalistic economy began to develop about |
|A) |1350. |
|B) |1450. |
|C) |1550. |
|D) |1650. |
|17. |__________ is an example of a core country which was never a classical colonial power. |
|A) |Singapore |
|B) |Netherlands |
|C) |Belgium |
|D) |Germany |
|18. |The boundaries of independent African states were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were essentially drawn |
|A) |arbitrarily. |
|B) |along ethnic lines. |
|C) |along religious lines. |
|D) |along ecological lines. |