Practice question · Multiple choice
How does a line drawn in ignorance become real?
Hints
- What happens on the two sides over sixty years?
- The line ends up describing a difference, where did the difference come from?
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B. By being administered: currencies, schools, laws, roads
Why
Two sides of an arbitrary line accumulate different currencies, schools, languages of administration, and legal systems, and after sixty years the line accurately describes a real difference that it created. The map preceded the reality and then produced it.
Practise Political Geography and Borders
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