Spanish and Ottoman Empire Vocabulary

A complete set of vocabulary flashcards covering the Spanish and Ottoman Empires based on lecture transcripts, including specific historical dates and terminology with verbatim fidelity.

Reconquista

The centuries-long christian Campagn ($718-1492$) to retake the Iberos Peninsula from muslim rule, ending when Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile Conquered Granda in $1492$.

The Spanish Empire

One of the world's largest empires during the $16th$ and $17th$ Centuries, with territories in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of Plants, animals, diseases, People, and ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after $1492$.

New word slavery

The system of forced labur in the Americas, largely involving enslaved Africans who worked on plantators and in Mines.

Habsburgs

The royal family that ruled Spain during it's "Golden Age" including rulers charles V and Philpilof spam.

Absolute Monarchy

A government where the King or Queen held hourly unlimited Political Power.

Religious Expulsions

The process where the Spanish expelled News ($1492$) and later many muslims to create religious unity under Catholicism.

The index of forbidden Books

A list of books banned by the Catholic church because they were considered dangerous or heretical.

Spanish Inquisition

A Catholic institution created in $1478$ to identify and punish heresy, especially among converted News and muslims suspected of Secretly practicing there former religions.

Spanish-Ottoman Wars

A Series of Conflicts between Spain and the Ottoman Empire over Control of the Mediterranean.

Putch rebellion

The revolt ($1568-1648$) of the Dutch Province against Spanish rule eventually leading to the independence of the Netherlands.

Destruction of Spanish Armada

In $1588$, England defeated much of spain's powerful fleet, marking the decline of Spanish naval dominance.

Thirty Years' War

European Conflict involving religion an Polotics ($1612-1648$) where Spain fought on the Catholic Habsburg side.

Battle of Rocroi

A major french ($1643$) victory over spain that symbolized the decline of Spanish military Supermacy.

Price revolution

A period of rising Prices in the $16th$ Century, Caused largely influx of silver and gold from the Americas.

Ottoman Empire

A powerful Islamic empire founded grand $1299$ that ruled parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa until $1922$.

Sultan

The Supreme ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

Devshirme

The system recruiting christian boys from Balkans, Covating them to Islam, and training them for the military or government Service.

Grand Vizer

The sultan's cheif minister and highest-ranking government official.

Divan

The Ottoman imperial Council that advised the Sultan and helped govern the empire.

Janissary Corps

The elite Ottoman infantry, Originally made up of boys through the devshirme system.

Millet system

A system that allowed ralyious micritics many of their own religions and legal affairs.

Safavid Empire

A rival Persian Empire that practiced Shia Islam, often fighting the Sunni Ottoman Empire.

Suleiman the magnificent

The greatest Ottoman Sultan ($1520-1566$), known for military expansion, legal reforms, and art.

Battle of lepanto

A naval battle in $1571$ in which a christian alliance defeated the Ottoman fleet, Slowing Ottoman expension in the meditenancem.

Battle of Vienna

Two Ottoman attempts ($1529$ and $1683$) to capture Viennae; the $1683$ defeat marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's long military delline.