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| 9819011565 | Akbar the great | Definition: Known as "the Great." 1542-1605. Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605) who conquered most of northern India and exercised religious tolerance. Significance: third king in the Mughal Dynasty. He used both diplomacy and power to expand his empire. He abolished the taxes that Hindus had to pay | 0 | |
| 9819011566 | Devshrime | Difinition: a system that took place under the Ottoman Empire. The sultan would collect Christian boys from the Balkans and turn them into his slaves. Significance: recruited by force to serve the Ottoman government. passed through a series of examinations to determine their intelligence and capabilities. | 1 | |
| 9819011567 | Janissary | Definition:a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries. Significance: they were discipline, moral, and professionalism which made them the strongest united army in Europe at that time. contributions to many important Ottoman victories, among them the conquest of Constantinople | 2 | |
| 9819011568 | Mehmed the conqueror | Definition: one of the famous sultans of Ottoman Empire. Significance: conquered Constantinople in 1453, which opened up the door to Ottoman expansion. He planned to expand the empire to Europe | 3 | |
| 9819011569 | Hernán Cortés | Definition:Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico Significance: strategically aligned some native peoples against others to overthrow them. Helped advance Spain's position in North America in the 1500s. | 4 | |
| 9819011570 | Columbian exchange | Definition: period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Significance: Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. The creation of colonies in the Americas | 5 | |
| 9819011571 | The great dying | Definition:The explorers and conquistadors from the New World brought diseases with them that the Native Americans had no immunity to. Significance:caused the social breakdown of Native American societies. Europeans gained power over the Americas | 6 | |
| 9819011572 | Plantation economy | Definition:based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms Significance:define the culture and economy of the South. created a society that was aristocratic. owners used slaves. | 7 | |
| 9819011573 | Peninsulares | Definition:was a Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies. Significance:favored over Spaniards born in America. member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas They were the only ones who were allowed to hold jobs in the Church and the government. | 8 | |
| 9819011574 | Mestizo | Definition: were people in the new colonial societies in Mexico and Peru who were mixed-race of Spanish and Indian decent Significance:Spaniards often looked down on as illegitimate. Since this caste system is rank the Indian mothers were held in higher esteem than the others. | 9 | |
| 9819011575 | Mulattoes | Definition:Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent. Significance:even if only a small percentile of the DNA of the individual in question is or afro origin. Found primarily in the south | 10 | |
| 9819011576 | Hacienda system | Definition:Rural estates in Spanish colonies in New World Significance: produced agricultural products for consumers in America. basis of wealth and power for local aristocracy. | 11 | |
| 9819011577 | Casta | Definition: was a hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century. Significance: was based on the principle that people varied largely due to their birth, color, race and origin of ethnic types. Spanish colonial state and the Church required more tax and tribute payments from those of lower socio-racial categories.[ | 12 | |
| 9819011578 | Yasak | Definition:"tribute" that was used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Significance:Problems would occur when the Tsar failed to deliver proper compensation or when the natives presents were deemed as unequal or "too cheap" | 13 | |
| 9819011579 | Siberia | Definition:extensive geographical region, and is also known as North Asia. Significance: It is known for it's mineral resources and political exile. A region of central and eastern Russia stretching from rural mountains to the pacific ocean | 14 | |
| 9819011580 | Mughal empire | Definition:Indian subcontinent, established and ruled by a Muslim dynasty of Chagatai Turco-Mongol origin from Central Asia. significance: invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century. Founded by Babur | 15 | |
| 9819011581 | Sati | Definition:A ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. Significance:This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. practice among some Hindu communities | 16 | |
| 9819011582 | Aurangzeb | Definition:was the sixth, and widely considered the last effective Mughal Emperor. Significance: threatened to have serious consequences for Mullah Shah. Was not religiously tolerant | 17 | |
| 9819011583 | Ottoman Empire | Definition:Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century Significance:the undisputed leaders of the Muslim world. For the rest of the century they cast their shadow over western Europe. | 18 | |
| 9819011584 | Constantinople | Definition:the capital of the eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire significance: affirmed Byzantium's rule on Russia | 19 | |
| 9819011585 | Suleyman the Magnificent | Definition: was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire Significance: regarded as the period of greatest justice and harmony in any Islamic state. His military empire expanded greatly both to the east and west, and he threatened to overrun the heart of Europe itself | 20 | |
| 9819011586 | Taj Mahal | Definition:Most famous architectural achievement of Mughal India; originally built a mausoleum for the wife of Shah Jahan, Mauntaz Mahal. | 21 |
