1450-1750 Vocab Pt 2: Early Modern Era
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wk310096 on November 6, 2008
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ottoman and mughal empires, russia, and africa
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Janissaries | Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies- had great deal of political influence after 15th century |
| Devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers |
| Shah | King, title of the Mughal rulers |
| Vizier | head of the Ottoman bureaucracy, after the 15th cent. often more powerful than the sultan |
| Sate, Suttee | Hindu ritual in India of immolating (sacrificing) surviving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands |
| tsar, czar | Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar) |
| boyars | landowning nobles in Russia, had less power than their western European counterparts |
| Cossacks | peasants recruited to migrate to lands in the southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests |
| Westernization | to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc. of Western Europe |
| Multinational State | an empire composed of many nations, nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, religions, etc. e.g. Russia, Ottoman Empire |
| 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 |
| 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 triangular trade. |
| Chattel slavery | concept of believing that slaves were merely objects, not humans |
| salt-water slaves | African born slaves |
| Creole slaves | American born descendants of salt-water slaves |
| Diaspora | the scattering of people--- can be forced or voluntary |
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