1450-1750 vocab pt. 2 Flashcards

51711392	Janissaries	Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; forcibly conscripted as boys in conquered areas of Balkans, legally slaves; translated military service into political influence, particularly after 15th century.	0
51711393	Devshirme	in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian Peoples to be trained as Muslim Soldiers	1
51711394	Shah	King, title of the Mughal rulers	2
51711395	Vizier	Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan.	3
51711396	Sati, sutte	a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced.	4
51711397	tsar, czar	The Russian emperor	5
51711398	boyars	Land owning aristocracy in early Russia.	6
51711399	Cossacks	peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements.	7
51711400	Westernization	the effort, especially in Peter the Great's Russia, to make society and social customs resemble counterparts in western Europe, especially France, Britain, and the Dutch Republic	8
51711401	Multinational State	an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, religions, etc. e.g. Russia, Ottoman Empire	9
51711402	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 the Americas	10
51711403	middle passage	the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route	11
51711404	Chattel slavery	concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans	12
51711405	salt-water slaves	African-born slaves	13
51711406	Creole slaves	American born descendants of salt-water slaves	14
51711407	Diaspora	the scattering of people can be forced or voluntary	15