unit 3 world history vocab

Gunpowder empires

Large multi ethnic states in southwest central and south Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories

Ghazi idea

A model for Warrior life that blended the cooperative values of nomadic culture, and the willingness to serve as a holy fighter for Islam

Shah

Someone who is equivalent to a king or emperor

Castes

Strict social grouping designated at birth. It was divided into four categories:Brahmin, kshatriyas, vaishyas, and the shurias.

Divine right of kings

A common claim from the middle ages that the right to rule was given to kings by God

Intendants

Royal officials bureaucratic elite, sent out to the provinces to execute the order of the central government

Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal and former Secretary of State for foreign affairs of France

Absolute government

Government directed by one source of power, the king with complete authority

Devshrime

A selection system used to staff, Ottoman sultans government and military

Zamindars

Paid government officials that were in charge of specific duties such as taxation construction in the water supply

Boyars

The noble landing class that stood at the top of the social pyramid

Peace of Augsburg

Allowed each German state to choose whether it’s ruler would be Catholic or Lutheran

Edict of Nantes

Allow the Huguenots to practice their faith

Peace of Westphalia

Allowed each area of the holy Roman empire to select one of the three religion options, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism , and then Calvinism

Indulgences

Grant a person absolution from the punishment for sin and to simony the selling of church officials

Simony

The buying or selling of church officials

Jesuits

Society of Jesus that opposed the spread of Protestantism , and they undertook missionary activity throughout the Spanish empire, as well as in Japan in India

Council of Trent

They corrected some of the worst of the church’s abuses and concentrated on reaffirming the rituals such as marriage and sacraments improving the education of Priest

95 theses

Nailed to the door of the castle church

Martin Luther

A monk that concluded several traditional church practices violated biblical teaching in which led him to create the 95 theses

Puritans

Those who wanted to purify the church of England of Catholic remnants

Empiricism

Insisted upon the collection of data to back up a hypothesis