Unit3

Dalai Lama

spiritual and political leaders in tibet

White Lotus Society

Desire of people to restore Ming Dynasty

Shi’a Islam

one of the two main branches of Islam, alongside Sunni Islam

Oprichina

-russia

a state policy implemented by Tsar Ivan the Terrible in Russia

-mass respression of aristocrats

-public executions

Deushirme System

staffs military + gov with stolen christian boys

-called janissaries

-ottoman empire

Intendants

royal officials, or bureaucratic elites, sent by the central government to French

Absolutism

political system where a monarch, typically a king or queen, holds absolute power within their kingdom,

30 years war

a European-wide conflict that raged from 1618 to 1648

-religious dispute between catholics and protestants

Counter reformation

a process by which the Catholic Church attempted internal reform and renewed evangelization

Humanism

focus on personal accomplishment on earth instead of living for salvation

Protestant Reformation

century religious movement in Europe that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and led to the creation of Protestantism