Chapter 18 Flashcards
1
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Ghazi
A
a warrior for Islam
2
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Ottomans
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Followers of Osman, who people in the West called Othman
3
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Sultan
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“Overload” or “one with power”; title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire
4
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Devshirme
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in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers
5
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Janissary
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a member pf an elite force of soldiers in Ottoman Empire