242693650 | Janissaries | Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies-had a great deal of political influence after the 15th century | 0 | |
242693651 | Devshirme | in the Ottoman empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 1 | |
242693652 | Shah | King, title of the Mughal rulers | 2 | |
242693653 | Vizier | head of the Ottoman bureaucracy, after the 15th century, often more powerful than the sultan | 3 | |
242693654 | tsar, czar | Russian emperor | 4 | |
242693655 | boyars | landowning nobles in Russia, had less power than their Western European counterparts | 5 | |
242693656 | Sati, suttee | Hindue ritual in India immolating surviving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands | 6 | |
242693657 | Cossacks | peasents recruited to migrate to lands in the Southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests | 7 | |
242693658 | Westernization | to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc. of Western Europe | 8 | |
242693659 | Multinational State | an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups cultures religions etc..... Russia Ottoman Empire | 9 | |
242693660 | 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 North America | 10 | |
242693661 | 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 to be the middle leg of the triangular trade | 11 | |
242693662 | Chattel Slavery | concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans | 12 | |
242693663 | salt-water slaves | african born slaves | 13 | |
242693664 | creole slaves | american born descendants of salt water slaves | 14 | |
242693665 | Diaspora | the scattering of people- can be forced or voluntary | 15 |
VOCAB 1450-1750 PART 2 Flashcards
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