Chapter 7: Empires of Asia
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sultan | Political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country. |
| Grand Vizier | Prime minister to sultan of a Muslim country. |
| Janissary | Member of an elite corps of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire. |
| Millet | Community of non-Muslims within the Ottoman Empire. |
| Suleiman I | ... |
| Shah Abbas | ... |
| Babur | ... |
| Akbar | ... |
| Junk | A Chinese sailing ship. |
| Queue | Single braid of hair at the back of the head. |
| Labor-Intensive Farming | Agriculture that relies on human labor, not animals or machines. |
| Hong Wu | ... |
| Yong Le | ... |
| Zheng He | ... |
| Manchus | ... |
| Sankin-Kotai | "Alternate attendance" In feudal Japan, system in which a daimyo had to spend every other year at the shogun's court. |
| Metsuke | Group of officials who gathered information for the Tokugawa shoguns. |
| Geisha | Japanese woman trained as a professional entertainer. |
| Haiku | Japanese poetry form with 17 syllables, usually in three lines. |
| Oda Nobunaga | ... |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ... |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... |
| Francis Xavier | ... |
| Matsuo Basho | ... |
| Colony | A settlement of people outside their homeland, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control. |
| Datus | Local rulers in the Philippines. |
| Animism | Belief that spirits are found in both living and nonliving things. |
| Trailok | ... |
| Phraya Chakkri | ... |
| Mongkut | ... |
| Chulalongkorn | ... |
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