Ulama - Scholars and exports in Islamic law.
Viziers - Strong advisers who gained positions over sultans.
Timar - Sultan granted land or tax revenues to those he favored.
Sultan Mehmed II - Invited Jews to settle in Istanbul.
Jizaya - tax required of all non-Muslims in the empire
Akbar the Great - remembered for military successes and administrative achievements.
Harem - residence where a powerful man’s wives and concubines lived
Roxelana - Unusually powerful in the Ottoman Empire. Married Suleiman and commissioned ambitious public works projects.
Barbary pirates - plied seas near North Africa along Barbary Coast
Impressed - Forced into service, in the navy as galley slaves.
Manchu - people from Manchuria that ruled over the majority Han Chinese and other ethnic groups.
Queues - braided pigtail style of the Manchu. If you refuse you get executed
Li Chengdong - orchestrated three separate massacres in the city of Jaiding in a month.
Liu Liangzuo - massacred the entire population of Jiangyin, killing between 74,000 - 100,000 people.
Nobility - also known as aristocracy. 2nd highest level in social hierarchy
Louis XIV - said “I am the state”
Sephardic Jews - Jews who trace their heritage back to Spain
Ashkenazi Jews - Jews from central and Eastern Europe.
Boyars - Noble landowners
Serfs - peasants who received a plot of land and protection from a noble
Ivan the Terrible - murdered his own son, defeated Novgorod, and forced the boyars to move to Moscow.
Peninsulares - born on the Iberian peninsula
Criollos - Europeans born in the Americas
Castas - mixed-race ancestry
Mestizos - mixed European and indigenous
Mullatoes - mixed European and African
Zambos - mixed indigenous and African