APE Unit 3 Review (Ch. 15 & 16 McKay)

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The ruler of the Ottoman Empire; he owned all the agricultural land of the empire and was served by an army and bureaucracy composed of highly trained slaves.

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Sultan

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A series of violent uprisings during the early reign of Louis XIV triggered by growing royal control and oppressive taxation.

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Fronde

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A system used by the Ottomans whereby subjects were divided into religious communities with each nation enjoying autonomous self-government under its religious leaders.

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Millet System

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The highest-ranking members of the Russian nobility.

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Boyars

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The name of a series of treaties that concluded the Thirty Years’ War in 1648 and marked the end of large-scale religious violence in Europe.

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Peace of Westphalia

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A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the state’s power; it was based on the belief that a nation’s wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver, determined its international power.

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Mercantilism

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Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.

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Puritans

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A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.

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Republicanism

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The core of the sultan’s army, composed of slave conscripts from non-Muslim parts of the empire; after 1683 it became a volunteer force.

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Janissary corps

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A series of treaties, from 1713 to 1715, that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, ended French expansion in Europe, and marked the rise of the British Empire.

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Peace of Utrecht