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|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. |

|D) |regions. |

|2. |The present number of countries and territories in the world is around |

|A) |400. |

|B) |350. |

|C) |300. |

|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. |

|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. |

|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. |

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