Chapter 6 Chapter Vocab

a soldier on the elite guard of the Ottoman Turks

• Janissary

• Grand vizier

•  Ulema

• Harem

 an empire formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions that they conquered through their mastery of firearms

• Pasha

• Orthodoxy

• Gunpowder empire

• Anarchy

¨holder of power¨; the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and the Ottomans

• Ulema

• Sultan

• Zamindars

• Gunpowder empire

the Ottoman sultanś chief minister who carried the main burdens of the state and who led the council meetings

• Grand vizier

• Harem

• Suttee

• Anarchy

¨sacred place¨; the private domain of an Ottoman sultan, where he and his wives resided

•  Harem

•  Sultan

• Janissary

• Grand vizier

 an appointed official of the Ottoman empire who collected taxes, maintained law and order, and was directly responsible to the sultanś court

• Orthodoxy

• Janissary

• Pasha

• Grand vizier

 a group of religious scholars who served as advisers to the Ottoman sultan; this group administered the legal system and schools for educating Muslims 

• Shah

• Harem

•  Ulema

• Zamindars

 king (used in Persia and Iran)

• Shah

•  Anarchy

• Pasha

• Sultan

traditional beliefs, especially in religion 

• Gunpowder empire

• Grand vizier

• Pasha

•  Orthodoxy

 political disorder; lawlessness

• Shah

•  Anarchy

• Grand vizier

•  Janissary