1. Nation-States…

2. How might the place a population chooses to settle and the size of the population affect development of the area?

3.  Culture Projects - late, 30% value  Unit Test Friday? - tentatively schedule  MIRPL Assignment - get articles approved - get assignments done early

4.  Comet mission - landed in wrong spot - can’t charge batteries  Napoleon’s hat sells for 2.4 million dollars - sold to South Korean collector

5. How might the place a population chooses to settle and the size of the population affect development of the area?

7.  PushPull

8.  Nation ◦ Group of people with shared culture ◦ Strong sense of nationalism  State ◦ Political term ◦ Independent with full control ◦ specific territory ◦ AKA: Country

9.  Nation and State occupy the same territory - many countries of the world are Nation-States

10. What is a State-less Nation? Basques of Spain Rohingya of South Asia Kurds of Iraq Palestinians of Israel (This is changing)

11.  Democracy ◦ Citizens hold power ◦ Direct Democracy or Elected representatives  Monarchy ◦ Ruling family, king or queen ◦ May or may not share power with people

12.  Dictatorship ◦ Individual or group holds ALL power ◦ Ex.  Communism ◦ Government and Economic system ◦ Power held by government for the people ◦ Ex.

13.  Scenario: We are creating a new country called Heuyardland  How big should it be?  What shape should it be?  Where in the world should it be?

14.  Size ◦ The larger the nation, the greater the potential it has to be powerful ◦ Ex.  Shape ◦ Fragmented, ex. ◦ Compact, ex. ◦ Long, ex.

16.  Location ◦ _____________ vs. Water Access Problems?

17.  Natural Boundaries vs Artificial Boundaries

18. 1. In what way does population help determine the “status” of a country or location? 2. Can we make inferences from these statistics? If so, How?

19.  You are creating a country, be sure to NAME it  On your sheet, list 10 characteristics that you would give your country: ◦ List them in order of the most important, explain why  Ex. Is it more important for a country to be a monarchy or compact?  Be sure to consider: size, shape, location, type of government, boundaries with other countries, one/several ethnic groups within the country