Land Survey
The name of the system in which men were given a share of the agricultural taxes of a designated region.
Timar System
Slaves were referred to as this.
Ghulam
Small areas in Turkish occupation typically designated by religion are part of this system.
Millet System
The two major crops throughout all 3 Turkish empires
Wheat & rice
The three empires typically ___________ their religious minorities.
Tolerated
Those in this Turkish group were exempt from taxation and given land.
Askeri
The Ottoman replacement of the typical slave system
Devshirme System
In regards to the neighborhood system set up in Turkish occupation, the religious neighborhoods followed this structure:
Jewish Quarter headed by the:
Greek & Armenian Christians headed by the:
Muslims:
Chief Rabbi, Orthodox Patriarch, did not partake, headed by Quran & Sharia
A crop lead to the creation of major social trend in the 3 empires. What was the crop and the trend?
Coffee, coffee houses
Religious diversity had this affect on the empires.
Lack of uniformity
At their height, the Ottomans put this amount of Turkish men into the system, thus allowing the system to become gradually hereditary.
100,000
The best of the Christian boys in this system learned these three languages.
Arabic, Persian, & Turkish
Briefly describe the two aspects of the relationship between the head of each neighborhood designed under Turkish occupation & the Sultan.
Heads of neighborhoods advised the sultan on affairs in the community. The Sultan could punish the heads if there were problems in the community.
These two empires did not see a rapid population growth such as this specific area ruled by the third empire.
What 2 empires did not see the population growth?
What specific area did?
Why did that area see rapid population growth?
Ottomans & Safavids, India, Intense agriculture
The Ottoman Empire's religious minorities were mostly:
Christians & Jews
The Turkish system is:
Not the same as:
More similar to:
European Feudalism
Japanese Shogun Fiefdom
Christian boys not brought into palace schools typically took on one of these two professions through the Ottoman Blood Tax.
Farmhands for rural farmers
Janissaries
Each community in the Turkish occupation system was responsible for these 3 things.
1. taxes 2. education 3. internal legal matters (inheritance, marriage, divorce, etc)
1 empire offered 3 specific things to another part of the world.
What was the empire?
What were the 3 things?
What part of the world were these things going to?
Safavids, silks, carpets, ceramics, Europe
The Mughal Empire's religious majority was:
Hindu
This team were the surveyors of the field system.
They were called:
And were responsible for gathering: 1, 2, 3
Sanjak, names of all the adult male farmers, sources of wealth in the area, yields & the taxes paid on them
Regardless of where they ended up, all Christian boys taken as part of the Ottoman Blood Tax had to do these four things.
Convert to Islam, revoke their Christian names, learn Turkish, serve the state.
This allowed the neighborhood system set up by Turkish occupation to slowly decline.
European nationalism
This empire was more focused on maritime trade.
1. Which empire was it?
2. What stations did they permit to be established?
Mughals, English, French, Dutch
Under this ruler, Islam was proclaimed the state religion and "non-believers" were taxed.
Who was the ruler?
What was the state?
Aurangzeb & Mughal Empire