VOCAB 1450-1750 PART 2 Flashcards

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