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| 51711392 | Janissaries | Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; forcibly conscripted as boys in conquered areas of Balkans, legally slaves; translated military service into political influence, particularly after 15th century. | 0 | |
| 51711393 | Devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian Peoples to be trained as Muslim Soldiers | 1 | |
| 51711394 | Shah | King, title of the Mughal rulers | 2 | |
| 51711395 | Vizier | Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan. | 3 | |
| 51711396 | Sati, sutte | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 4 | |
| 51711397 | tsar, czar | The Russian emperor | 5 | |
| 51711398 | boyars | Land owning aristocracy in early Russia. | 6 | |
| 51711399 | Cossacks | peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements. | 7 | |
| 51711400 | Westernization | the effort, especially in Peter the Great's Russia, to make society and social customs resemble counterparts in western Europe, especially France, Britain, and the Dutch Republic | 8 | |
| 51711401 | Multinational State | an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, religions, etc. e.g. Russia, Ottoman Empire | 9 | |
| 51711402 | triangular trade | the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas | 10 | |
| 51711403 | middle passage | the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route | 11 | |
| 51711404 | Chattel slavery | concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans | 12 | |
| 51711405 | salt-water slaves | African-born slaves | 13 | |
| 51711406 | Creole slaves | American born descendants of salt-water slaves | 14 | |
| 51711407 | Diaspora | the scattering of people can be forced or voluntary | 15 |
