AP Human Geography / Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes
4.3 Political Power and Territoriality
Notes
Territoriality: a group's attempt to control an area. Power can be shown through boundaries, laws, and control of resources.
- Neocolonialism: economic or political influence without formal control.
- Choke points and shatterbelts.
Practice
A powerful country controlling another's economy without ruling it is:
Indirect control.
The Strait of Hormuz is a key:
Narrow shipping route.
Territoriality is:
Defending an area.
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