Deck 10: A World of Nations and States

Question 1

One of the largest and long-lasting empires ever, the Roman Empire extended

A)from northern Norway to central Africa.
B)from eastern China to the Caspian Sea.
C)from Lake Titicaca to the central valleys of today's Colombia.
D)from the British Isles to Dacia (modern day Romania).

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which is the best example of a "political unit"?

A)the family
B)a city
C)a married couple
D)a stamp collecting club

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which is the best example of a city-state?

A)Sparta in ancient Greece
B)New York City in 1820
C)London in 1960
D)Trump Tower in New York City

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is true of a feudal system?

A)chiefs control all activities across the land
B)the political system is not necessarily tied to complete territorial control in that system
C)a president leads an executive branch of government
D)a dictator rules all aspects of communal agricultural ownership

Question 5

In primitive examples of government, territory might have been ruled by

A)tribal chiefdoms.
B)monarchs.
C)parliaments.
D)corporations.

Question 6

A democracy is a government that

A)rules with the consent of its people.
B)rules with a king and queen.
C)rules with a despot or dictator.
D)is ruled by a company.

Question 7

During the era of Apartheid, South Africa

A)became an independent sovereign state.
B)broke up into separate states.
C)declared internal homelands as independent states.
D)unified many city-states into one sovereign nation.

Question 8

Diplomatic relations are

A)elements of the communications and interactions between states.
B)when important leaders get together and play sports.
C)the interactions between plants and animals on different countries' borders.
D)how population characteristics change between different countries.

Question 9

Why might the state of Israel not always be seen as 'legitimate'?

A)because 20 countries do not officially recognize it as a state
B)because the U.S.and most European countries do not recognize it as a state
C)Israel is too developed and industrialized for others to recognize it as a state
D)Israel is dominantly Muslim, so many do not understand its reason for being

Question 10

In North Korea, with newly chosen Kim Jung Un, one has an example of

A)a democratically elected government.
B)a country ruled by a dictatorship based on a family personality cult.
C)a country ruled by corporations.
C)a country ruled by the long established reign of Korean Kings.

Question 11

Empires

A)are collections of different regions held together by force.
B)are always controlled by a publicly elected magistrate.
C)are always federally controlled, with individual states.
D)are usually micro-states collected into a large entity.

Question 12

One of the first steps toward a modern system of sovereign states was

A)found in the development of the Aztec and Incan Empires.
B)developed in Africa as a result of the loss of slaves to the Americas.
C)begun in the sophisticated city-states of southeast Asia like Ankor-Wat.
D)seen in central Europe with sovereignty in the Westphalian state system.

Question 13

Which is a good example of a political unit existing at a scale larger than a state?

A)the city of Los Angeles
B)Boardman Township, Ohio
C)the European Union
D)a birding society

Question 14

On the map of world political units, different colors in land areas represent

A)different sovereign states.
B)different high density population regions.
C)different industrial concentrations.
D)different cultural and language types.

Question 15

The map of political units in 1491 shows

A)basically the contemporary map of modern states.
B)basically a series of city-states.
C)a combination of empires, city-states, pre-dating the modern system.
D)groupings of dictatorships where boundaries were usually walls.

Question 16

Which of the following has the least legitimacy as a state and why?

A)China because the people do not govern
B)the United States because it is too large to govern efficiently
C)Italy because some in the north want to break away and form a new country
D)Northern Cyprus because most other countries do not recognize it

Question 17

The dominant part of an empire could be called the ____________ while the peripheral areas of influence are _____________.

A)central business districts;suburbs
B)urban heat islands;agricultural hinterlands
C)metropoles;colonies
D)culture hearths;irrelevant to the center

Question 18

A satellite state is a country that

A)changes its boundaries frequently.
B)changes its leaders frequently.
C)is closely tied to the dominant rule of another more influential state.
D)has many different ethnic, nationalistic regions within it.

Question 19

Which is the best example of decolonization?

A)France becoming gradually more nationalistic and sovereign
B)the development of Spain around Spanish speaking peoples
C)the British Colonies of North America revolting and becoming independent
D)the city-state of the Vatican maintaining its autonomy

Question 20

On the map of Europe in the 19ᵗʰ century, Italy was

A)ruled by Mussolini under the direction of Hitler.
B)ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
C)an autonomous Westphalian entity.
D)not yet a sovereign state.

Question 21

Irredentist movements are seen when

A)part of one state wants to separate and join another state.
B)one part of a state wants independence.
C)a nation becomes divided.
D)wealthier parts of a country want to secede.

Question 22

All states in the world

A)are large with much territory.
B)have the requirement to maintain sufficient raw materials to persevere.
C)have fought with a neighbor at some time or another.
D)are seen to possess certain levels of sovereignty, legitimacy, and territory.

Question 23

A good example of open, undemarcated boundaries would be

A)between Switzerland and Germany where Switzerland is a Schengen member, but not an EU member.
B)between Pakistan and Afghanistan where there is little Pakistani government control of the border.
C)between Saudi Arabia and Yemen where no boundary has ever been drawn.
D)between the islands of Crete and Cyprus where boundaries cannot be drawn because of water.

Question 24

State boundaries within the United States of America were often 'antecedent'

A)because they occurred before much medical service had diffused through the country.
B)because they often were drawn before settlement of the European peoples entering.
C)because they were formed based on the activities of the indigenous Native Americans.
D)because they have changed often since first being laid out.

Question 25

The best example of a stateless nation would be

A)the Bosnians.
B)the North Koreans.
C)the Native Americans (Indians) of the United States.
D)France.

Question 26

The difference between Japan and the United States when referring to each as 'nations' is that

A)Japan is still indebted to the United States for recovery after World War II.
B)the U.S.is now controlled by Japan as Japan now owns most U.S.factories.
C)one's nationality is based on one ethnic group and the other a shared set of ideas.
D)one is a nuclear power and the other is not.

Question 27

Regarding political boundaries and other geo-political situations, de jure means _________________ while de facto means ______________.

A)'by law';'in fact'.
B)'by day';'by night'.
C)'alert';'relaxed'.
D)'policed';'un regulated'.

Question 28

Which is the most accurate statement regarding Bosnia?

A)It is ethically unified-a nation-state.
B)It is a federal country made up of two parts that barely recognize each other.
C)It is not sovereign in any form of the word.
D)It is still a republic of the state of Yugoslavia.

Question 29

Critical geopolitics

A)define ways country boundaries and relations are perceived.
B)are studies of why different countries dislike one another.
C)usually includes some discussion of plate tectonics.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 30

On the map of the country of Bosnia, you see a red line that signifies

A)a railroad.
B)a major climate divide between mountainous and flat plain.
C)the divide between two separate federal regions within the country.
D)a green line that separates two feuding factions in the city of Sarajevo.

Question 31

A centrifugal force contributes to

A)the devolution of a country.
B)separatism.
C)possibly greater federalism in attempts to keep the country together.
D)all of the above are strongly related to centrifugal forces. Scrambling: Locked

Question 32

Canada is a state, but regarding nations

A)it has mainly one which speaks one language uniformly throughout its territory.
B)it has none as all Canadians are devoted to cold weather sports like hockey.
C)it maintains one that originated from Romance speaking central Europe.
D)it has two large ones and many smaller culture regions, thus is a plural society.

Question 33

A 'nation-state' occurs when

A)the boundaries of the state mainly coincide with that of the ethnic nation.
B)there is a revolution which changes an empire into a command economy.
C)nations develop into theocracies controlled by religious leaders.
D)you find Arabs all across North Africa and much of the Middle East.

Question 34

The purpose of designated 'Euroregions' is to

A)deemphasize cultural commonalities between states.
B)emphasize river use between states.
C)show how it is useless to think areas of many states cannot get along with other states.
D)emphasize cultural-economic integration among unlike regions between countries.

Question 35

There are 195 states in the world, but how many nations?

A)195, the same number as there are states
B)no one has yet counted all of them
C)mainly five which are the major large language regions of the world
D)it is difficult to say because the term 'nation' is largely self-determined

Question 36

Which is the best example of a nation?

A)the Kurdish people, who reside in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey
B)the people of Ohio who maintain a distinct ethnicity and culture
C)the people of the United States who are "One Nation Under God"
D)the people of the 25 ethnically diverse states of India

Question 37

The policy of 'containment' was originally designed to limit

A)communist expansion (Russia and China).
B)democratic upheaval (Eastern Europe).
C)agricultural potential (India and Southeast Asia).
C)theocratic tendencies (Sudan, Iran and Iraq).

Question 38

East Timor is a good example of

A)a large country that was once an empire.
B)a small country able to act on its self-determination, becoming independent.
C)a colony today of Portugal.
D)a chiefdom that still exists in the modern world.

Question 39

The map of the island of Cyprus shows

A)the northern part is Turkish, ethnically.
B)the island is unified ethnically.
C)the central portion is controlled by NATO.
D)all of the island as a Greek colony. Scrambling: Locked

Question 40

Which is the best example of a centrifugal force for a country?

A)a patriotic song
B)several poor years for agriculture
C)economic decline
D)regional disparity