Ap world his vocab 1450-1750 Flashcards

51870495	Janissaries	Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; translated military service into political influence, particularly after 15th century	0
51870496	Devshirme	in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers	1
51870497	shah	king, title of the Mughal rulers	2
51870498	vizier	Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan.	3
51870499	Sati, suttee	Hindu ritual in India of immolating Sacrificing surving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands	4
51870500	Tsar, Czar	Russian emperor (from the roman title caesar)	5
51870501	boyars	Russian aristocrats; possessed less political power than did their counterparts in western Europe.	6
51870502	cossacks	peasants recruited to migrate to lands in the southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests	7
51870503	westernization	to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc. of western europe	8
51870504	Multinational state	an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, religions, etc. e.g. Russia, Ottoman Empire	9
51870505	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
51870506	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 the middle leg of the trangular trade	11
51870507	chattel slavery	concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans	12
51870508	salt water slaves	african born slaves	13
51870509	creole slaves	American born descendants of salt-water slaves	14
51870510	diaspora	scattering of people- can be forced or voluntary	15