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Pregunta 1 de 56

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The best example of a state among the following is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities and divided up administratively among various independant countries

  • A mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities which share responsibility for maintaining an independent government and a standing army

  • A group of islands inhabited by a homogenous ethnicity, although the westernmost islands pertain to the territory of one country whereas the easternmost islands pertain to another country

  • a mountainous region inhabited by a mixture of peoples but inhabited by a european nation-state

  • an island with a long history of self-rule and a homogenous ethnic identity, although the island has been under the control of a colonial power for the last 30 years

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 56

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Which of the following is an example of an enclave in the United States?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Colorado

  • Washington DC

  • Alaska

  • Florida

  • California

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 56

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The Kurds are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the majority population of Iraq

  • a multinational state

  • trying to unite with Turkey

  • divided among more than one state

  • a religious minority in the Middle East

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 56

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What type of border dispute is this?
Canada and the United States are historic allies but disagree on how to implement a plan for a "secure and smart border" that would protect against terrorists attacks while 200,000 vehicles cross the border each day, mostly trucks involved in a steady stream of trade. Agreements must be made on whether or not to inspect each truck and how to track the flow of individuals back and forth along the 4,000-mile border

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • functional/operational dispute

  • resource dispute

  • religious dispute

  • ethnic dispute

  • positional/locational dispute

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 56

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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is known as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • nationalism

  • universal suffrage

  • self determination

  • sovereignty

  • centripetal determination

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 56

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Which of the following is the best example of a core area for an entire state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Japan's Kanto Plain

  • Lagos, Nigeria

  • Brasilia, Brazil

  • Washington, D.C.

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 56

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Which shape most easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Prolonged

  • Compact

  • Prorupted

  • Elongated

  • Fragmented

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 56

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The most fragmented Southeast Asian state is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Malaysia

  • Thailand

  • Indonesia

  • Brunei

  • East Timor

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 56

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Cultural Boundaries include all but which of the following?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • religious

  • linguistic

  • geomorphic

  • ethnic

  • geometric

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 56

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Which of the following nations is considered a stateless-nation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Jewish

  • French

  • Spanish

  • Polish

  • Kurdish

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 56

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An example of a modern day city-state is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Panama Canal

  • Singapore

  • German

  • Paris

  • New York

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 56

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The two Germanys

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • were divided by proto-Germanic languages

  • were divided by economic and cultural boundaries until 1871

  • were on opposite banks of the Rhine River

  • are the newest UN member states in Europe

  • existed separately from 1949 to 1990

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 56

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Which of the following is the best description of the geographic distribution of power within states today?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • states with confederal systems are about equal in number to states with unitary systems

  • most states are federal systems

  • most states are confederal systems

  • most states are unitary sysyems

  • states with federal systems are about equal in number to states with unitary systems

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 56

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Which two countries are not members of the European Union?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Portugal and Austria

  • Finland and Sweden

  • Germany and Denmark

  • Spain and France

  • Norway and Switzerland

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 56

1

The world's largest state is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Canada

  • Russia

  • Alaska

  • India

  • China

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 56

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key challenges to establishing a representative government in Iraq after Saddam Hussein are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • sectarian conflict between the Shiite and Sunni muslims

  • Al-Qaeda insurgents opposed to a secular state with US ties

  • tribal and ethnic differences between provinces

  • geometric boundaries established by British and French treaties

  • all of these

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 56

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The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • cultural

  • environmental

  • military

  • economic

  • political

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 56

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The boundaries between which set of countries were established primarily to separate different religions?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • France and Germany

  • India and Pakistan

  • Russia and Ukraine

  • Libya and Chad

  • Mexico and the United States

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 56

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Which of the following states use desert as a boundary?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Iraq and Kuwait

  • Turkey and Syria

  • China and India

  • Canada and the United States

  • Brazil and Peru

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 56

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A true nation-state

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • is relatively uncommon

  • is best exemplified by the United States

  • gives sovereignty to each nation within its borders

  • often contains two or more sizable nations within it

  • is best exemplified by France

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 56

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Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • has decreased by a couple of dozen

  • has remained approximately the same

  • has increased by more than a thousand

  • has increased by a couple of dozen

  • has increased by more than a hundred

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 56

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Terrorism differs from assassinations and other acts of political violence because

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • attacks are aimed at military targets or political leaders

  • attacks are aimed at ordinary people

  • attacks use only personal and improvised weapons

  • attacks are typically made without regard for political goals

  • attacks are never well coordinated

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 56

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The boundary between the US and Canada is best described by which of the following?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • water and linguistic

  • mountain and water

  • water and geometric

  • geometric only

  • linguistic and religious

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 56

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To be considered a nation, a group of people must

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • be sovereign and self-determined

  • share a sense of nationalism

  • share cultural elements like religion, language, history, and politics

  • reside in the same territory

  • have their own country

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 56

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Which of the following states have and enclave?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Brazil

  • Italy

  • Egypt

  • Australia

  • France

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 56

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Of the following , the United States is best characterized as a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • nation-state

  • monarchy

  • confederation

  • supranational organization

  • republic

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 56

1

A Southeast Asian country with a partly elongated or prorupted state is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Thailand

  • Cambodia

  • Pakistan

  • Indonesia

  • China

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 56

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Neocolonialism

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • allows core states to continue exploiting periphery states

  • pre-dates European interest in North America

  • peaked near the end of the 19th century

  • is still relevant in Africa, but not in other parts of the southern hemisphere

  • has in general been anticapitalist

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 56

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Which of the following is not one of the states that formed from the Soviet Union after its breakup?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Kazakhstan

  • Chechnya

  • Russia

  • Estonia

  • Ukraine

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 56

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Which of the following is not true of al-Qaeda?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • finance, media, legal-religious policy and military committees report to a council called Majis al Shura

  • Al-Qaeda has been implicated in several bombings since the attack on the US in 2001

  • Al-Qaeda grew out of the war against the soviet union in afghanistan

  • Most al-Qaeda members have lived in ordinary society, supporting themselves with jobs or crime

  • Al-Qaeda is a single unified organization

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 56

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In the 1980s, the US send bombers to attack ___ in a failed attempt to kill colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, in retribution for his country's support of terrorism

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Iran

  • Egypt

  • Israel

  • Libya

  • Iraq

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 56

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Halford Mackinder, developer of the heartland theory, thought that this country was most likely to make a bid for world domination:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The United States

  • Russia

  • Britain

  • Japan

  • France

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 56

1

Despite the independence of India, Rwanda, and Algeria, the continuing effects of colonialism are still seen in

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the loss of all cultural identity

  • the large secondary (manufacturing) sector of the economy

  • their incorporation into the world system core

  • English as the official language or lingua franca

  • violent conflicts involving territory and power

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 56

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Which of the following pairs best represent nation-states?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • India and Russia

  • the Basque region and Kurdistan

  • Japan and Iceland

  • the United States and Canada

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 56

1

A region that historically is caught between stronger colliding external forces. The region is often shattered and splintered politically and ethnically. This is an example of a(n)

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • primate state

  • shatterbelt

  • core

  • periphery

  • insurgent state

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 56

1

The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolizes the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • triumph of capitalism over communism

  • the end of the cold war

  • beginning of the "new world order"

  • all of these answers

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 56

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With globalization and the increasing importance of trade-facilitating organizations, states are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • growing as containers of political and economic power

  • becoming irrelevant

  • disappearing

  • trying to spread the benefits of globalization

  • becoming sites of transnational flows and connections

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 56

1

A state with control over its internal affairs has

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ethnicity

  • centripetal forces

  • nationality

  • suffrage

  • sovereignty

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 56

1

An area organized into an independent political unit is a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • nation

  • colony

  • territory

  • nationality

  • state

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 56

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The heartland theory held that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • sea power was the dominant form of military advantage

  • Britain should give its colonies independence

  • North America was the best place from which to launch a campaign for world domination

  • all of these

  • none of these

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 56

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Which of the following is NOT a land-locked state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Nepal

  • Rwanda

  • South Africa

  • Mongolia

  • Uzbekistan

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 56

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Which of the following is considered a sovereign state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Alaska

  • Spratly Islands

  • Antarctica

  • India

  • Hong Kong

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 56

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Which of the following is NOT an example of supranationalism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the United Nations

  • Russia

  • the Arab League

  • the Organization of American States

  • the European Union

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 56

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During which time period were the most new states created in the world?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1945-2000

  • 1900-1925

  • 1750-1825

  • 1825-1900

  • 1925-1945

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 56

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Which of the following is true for land-locked states?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • relations with their neighbors are not as important as for maritime countries

  • they are likely to be the wealthiest state in their region

  • there are more land-locked states in the world than maritime states

  • interior locations are more difficult to defend

  • they are at a commercial and strategic disadvantage

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 56

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With a few small exceptions, the countries of the European Union share all of the following except

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • an EU court system

  • a European Union constitution

  • free movement of goods, services, and people across their boundaries

  • an EU parliament

  • a common currency

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 56

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Which cultural hearth is credited with the creation of city-states, which eventually led to the creation of the concept of nation-state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Mayan

  • Greece

  • Roman Empire

  • Mesopotamia

  • Northern India

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 56

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In which form of government is significant power given to smaller units of government within the state?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • organic state

  • democratic state

  • confederate state

  • federal state

  • unitary state

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 56

1

The recent fragmentation of a region into smaller political units is known as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • politicization of religion

  • irredentism

  • perforation

  • balkanization

  • proruption

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 56

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According to Halford Mackinder's Heartland Theory, the 'geographical pivot' from which world conquest could be controlled includes the area of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the Arabian peninsula

  • Eurasia, including Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

  • Europe from Italy to Holland

  • Southeast Asia, including Indonesia

  • North America from Chicago to Montreal to Washington, DC

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 56

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The best example of a nation among the following is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a group of islands inhabited by a homogenous ethnicity, although the westernmost islands pertain to the territory of one country whereas the other islands pertain to another country

  • a mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities and divided up administratively between various independent countries

  • a mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities which share responsibility for maintaining an independent government and standing army

  • a mountainous region inhabited by a mixture of peoples but recently colonized by a european nation-state

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 56

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The type of boundary line is established before an area is well populated

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • natural boundary

  • geometric boundary

  • linguistic boundary

  • antecendent boundary

  • subsequent boundaries

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 56

1

The boundary between Argentina and Chile is an example of a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • cultural frontier

  • physical boundary

  • perforated boundary

  • geometric boundary

  • prorupted boundary

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 56

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Which type of countries usually encompass diverse types of climates, resources, and peoples?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • elongated

  • perforated

  • fragmented

  • compact

  • prorupt

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 56

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A federal state (or federation) is one in which

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • administered by the Federal government, like Washington, DC

  • countries unite toward a common economic, or sometimes military, goal

  • local units of government work to adopt uniform rules and regulations

  • government power and control is centralized

  • government power is dispersed to local units

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 56

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Drawing from social darwinism, Friedrich Ratzel's model of the state- in which state growth and change were 'natural' and inevitable- portrayed the state as a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • soldier

  • snowball

  • volcano

  • biological organsim

  • religion

Explicación

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