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Small Group Discussion
  • How many states can you name?
  • Who decides what is a state?
  • Who decides where borders lie?
  • Can you name one/two conflicts between states?
  • What is the conflict based on?
  • Are there issues within states? Why?

2
Territorial Morphology
3
Shapes
4
Compact States
  • Distance from center to boundaries is the same
  • If capital is in center, eases ability to rule
  • Allows for good communication

5
Prorupted States
  • A compact state with a large projecting extension
  • - Often exist for natural resource reasons

6
Elongated States
  • Long, narrow shape because of geographic,
    political or economic reasons
  • - Communication / Transportation problems

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Fragmented States
  • Consists of several discontinuous pieces of
    territory (islands)
  • Hard to control
  • and protect

8
Perforated States
  • A state that completely surrounds another one

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Size
  • Bigger
  • Increases chances of having natural resources
  • Smaller (Microstates)
  • -likely to have homogeneous populations less
    conflict

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ORGANIZATION
  • CORE AREA Center of the action
  • MULTI-CORE STATES countries that are bigor
    ethnically diverse..might have 2-3 cores
  • PRIMATE CITY- city that represents national
    interests
  • FORWARD CAPITAL both the primate and the core
    city

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Your Turn
  • Find states in the world that fit the seven
    different territorial morphology we just learned.
    AND.
  • Identify a Core Area of 1 country
  • A country with Multi-Cores
  • Identify a Primate City of 1 country
  • Identify a Forward Capital of 1 country
  • Be able to defend your answers
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