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VOCAB 1450-1750 PART 2 Flashcards

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242693650JanissariesOttoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies-had a great deal of political influence after the 15th century0
242693651Devshirmein the Ottoman empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers1
242693652ShahKing, title of the Mughal rulers2
242693653Vizierhead of the Ottoman bureaucracy, after the 15th century, often more powerful than the sultan3
242693654tsar, czarRussian emperor4
242693655boyarslandowning nobles in Russia, had less power than their Western European counterparts5
242693656Sati, sutteeHindue ritual in India immolating surviving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands6
242693657Cossackspeasents recruited to migrate to lands in the Southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests7
242693658Westernizationto influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc. of Western Europe8
242693659Multinational Statean empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups cultures religions etc..... Russia Ottoman Empire9
242693660triangular tradethe transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, europe, the West Indies and the colonies in North America10
242693661Middle Passagethe 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 to be the middle leg of the triangular trade11
242693662Chattel Slaveryconcept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans12
242693663salt-water slavesafrican born slaves13
242693664creole slavesamerican born descendants of salt water slaves14
242693665Diasporathe scattering of people- can be forced or voluntary15

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