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| 5906030889 | Akbar the Great | Define: Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605) who conquered most of northern India and exercised religious tolerance. Significance: Akbar (1542-1605), is one of the most prominent personalities in the history of medieval India. He was the third king in the Mughal Dynasty. He succeeded his father Humayun as king at young age of 13 and continued to rule till his death. |  | 0 |
| 5906037891 | Mehmed the Conqueror | Define: Mehmed II, also known as The Conqueror is one of the famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with his intelligence. Significance: Mehmed II ruled the Ottoman for a brief time, from 1444 to 1446, after his father. After that time Sultan Murad II renounced the throne but when he died Mehmed II ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1451 to 1481. |  | 1 |
| 5906084408 | Devshirme | Define: System in which selected Christian boys were converted to Islam, trained and educated to become a part of military or government. Significance: Elite force of 30,000 from the conquered territories as part of the devshirme system. |  | 2 |
| 5906102539 | Janissary | Define: A member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries. Significance: The Janissaries wore uniforms, were paid in cash as regular soldiers, and marched to distinctive music, the Mehter, similar to a modern marching band. All of these features set the Janissaries apart from most soldiers of the time. |  | 3 |
| 5906108779 | Casta | Define: A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites (españoles) in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century. Significance: This system separated people in the Americas into three different group, Spaniards, Native American, and Africans. People of different races would get different treatment with the Spaniard at the top, then Native American and African. |  | 4 |
| 5906113209 | Hernan Cortes | Define: Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. Significance: He defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain. |  | 5 |
| 5906108780 | Yasak | Define: A Turkic word for "tribute" that was used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Significance: Yasak was payable in sables, red foxes, beavers, martens, and cattle. The tax help imperial Russia to become a wealthy and powerful state. |  | 6 |
| 5906110042 | Siberia | Define: A vast territory that is now central and eastern Russia. It is unsuited for agriculture but rich in minerals and fur-bearing animals. Significance: Fur from Siberia help created the fur trading network in Eurasia. There was great demand for Siberian furs from Europe, China, and Persia. |  | 7 |
| 5906110043 | Mughal Empire | Define: A dominant gunpowder empire that control vast territories in South Asia from 1526 to 1857. Significance: The Mughal Empire develop many revolutionary military technologies such as the match lock, the composite bow, and powerful cannons. The Empire also build some of the greatest piece of architecture the world has ever seen such as the Taj Mahal and Red Fort. |  | 8 |
| 5906131446 | Columbian Exchange | Define: The Columbian Exchange refers to a 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. |  | 9 |
| 5906141449 | The Great Dying | Define: The explorers and conquistadors from the New World brought diseases with them that the Native Americans had no immunity to. Significance: Many as 60 to 80 million Native Americans died from these diseases. This mass dying caused the social breakdown of Native American societies. |  | 10 |
| 5906162398 | Peninsulares | Define: Top of Spanish-American society; people who had been born in Spain; only people who could hold office. Significance: In the Spanish caste system, peninsulares were favored over Spaniards born in America. These people were called criollos. |  | 11 |
| 5906184455 | Mulattoes | Define: A term used to refer to persons born of one white parent and one black parent or to persons born of a mulatto parent or parents. Significance: The term today is generally confined to historical contexts and English-speakers of mixed white and black ancestry seldom choose to identify themselves as "mulatto." |  | 12 |
| 5906176876 | Mestizo | Define: A man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. Significance: This baby, Martin, became one of the first examples of a mestizo, a racial category used in Latin America to describe those with both Native American and European Spanish ancestry. |  | 13 |
| 5906149483 | Plantation Economy | Define: A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms called plantations. Significance: Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income. |  | 14 |
| 5906111630 | Sati | 15 | ||
| 5906111631 | Aurangzeb | 16 | ||
| 5906065635 | Hacienda System | Define: Spanish word for an estate. Some haciendas were plantations, mines or factories. The Spanish crown first started granting land in the form of haciendas to the Spanish conquistadors. They then became owner of these estate call hacendados. Significance: The Spanish used this system to establish a grasp on the new world. The Hacendados uses natives as laborer for these estates, making huge profits. |  | 17 |
| 5906113457 | Ottoman Empire | 18 | ||
| 5906113458 | Constantinople | 19 | ||
| 5906115424 | Suleyman the Magnificient | 20 | ||
| 5906115460 | Taj Mahal | 21 |
