A form of forced enslavement in direct contradiction to Islamic law, the _________ system was a levy on Christian boys in the Ottoman Empire by which the conquered Christian population was obligated to contribute adolescent males to join the military and administrative classes.
a. caste
b. millet
c. devshirme
d. Let do remarkably uniformity in language across the Americas from modern-day Canada to the southernmost tip of Chile.
c. devshirme
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A) fought somewhere else B) fought in the country C) longer than a year D) shorter than a year
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A) Thomas Dewey B) Ronald Reagan C) John F. Kennedy D) Strom Thurmond
The South's nearly 400,000 ________ were viewed by the British as a resource to be exploited during the war
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).