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| 51870495 | Janissaries | Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; translated military service into political influence, particularly after 15th century | 0 | |
| 51870496 | Devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 1 | |
| 51870497 | shah | king, title of the Mughal rulers | 2 | |
| 51870498 | vizier | Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan. | 3 | |
| 51870499 | Sati, suttee | Hindu ritual in India of immolating Sacrificing surving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands | 4 | |
| 51870500 | Tsar, Czar | Russian emperor (from the roman title caesar) | 5 | |
| 51870501 | boyars | Russian aristocrats; possessed less political power than did their counterparts in western Europe. | 6 | |
| 51870502 | cossacks | peasants recruited to migrate to lands in the southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests | 7 | |
| 51870503 | westernization | to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc. of western europe | 8 | |
| 51870504 | Multinational state | an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, religions, etc. e.g. Russia, Ottoman Empire | 9 | |
| 51870505 | 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 | |
| 51870506 | middle passage | the voyage that brought captured africans to the west indies and later to north and south america to be sold as slaves- so called because it was considered the middle leg of the trangular trade | 11 | |
| 51870507 | chattel slavery | concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans | 12 | |
| 51870508 | salt water slaves | african born slaves | 13 | |
| 51870509 | creole slaves | American born descendants of salt-water slaves | 14 | |
| 51870510 | diaspora | scattering of people- can be forced or voluntary | 15 |
