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Safavid-Mughal conflict
Shi’a Safavids vs Sunni Mughals
Janissaries
Elite military troop in the Ottoman army
Devshirme system
Ottoman system of recruiting soldiers from among the children of their Christian subjects
Samurai
Elite, highly trained soldiers in Japan
Qing imperial portraits
Legitimized rule in China
Versailles
Huge palace in France, legitimized power in France
Incan sun temple
Legitimized rule in Incan empire
Divine right
Legitimized rule in Europe, saying that the ruler had a divine right to rule from god
Zamindar tax collection
Tax collection system used in Mughal empire, Zamindars (local elites) given the right to collect taxes but give some revenue to the imperial treasury
Tax farming
Tax collection system used in Ottoman Empire, state auctioned tax collecting rights to highest bidder
Sunni Islam
Mohammeds successor should be elected for the job
Shi’a Islam
Only Mohammeds blood relatives should succeed him
Sikhism
Islam + Hinduism
Fluyt
Dutch cargo vessel, facilitated travel
Compass
Shows direction, facilitated transoceanic travel
Trading post empire
Imperial trade network established by foreign country (e.g. Portugal)
Chattel slavery
Enslaving and owning humans and their offspring as property
Important things from new world to old world
Tobacco, rubber, potatoes
Important things from old world to new world
Bubonic plague, sugar, smallpox, cattle
Important things from Africa to new world via slaves
Okra, rice
Encomienda system
Spains labor system that rewarded conquerors with labor of non Christian people
Hacienda system
Large estate in Spanish America, hacendados bound to land by debt
VOC
Dutch East India Company
Mercantilism
Maximize exports, minimize imports
Joint-stock company
Business owned by investors who own based on $ contributed, often founded by states
Atlantic system
Voodo
Syncretic religion, Vodun + Catholicism
Pueblo revolts
Pueblo indians revolt against Spanish rule in New Mexico
Maratha conflict
Maratha confederacy vs. British East India Company
Haitian wars for independence
Slave revolt against masters
Maroon societies
Group of descendants of indigenous Americans and Africans who resisted being enslaved and escaped to form their own settlements
Restrictive Qing policies against Han
Forbade Han immigrants to settle in the region
Zamindars
Collected taxes on behalf of Mughal empire
Boyars
Highest rank of Slavic society
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