This was the group within the Ottoman Empire composed of the wives, servants, female relatives, and the sultan's concubines; this institution played an important social function within the Ottoman court and demonstrated considerable political authority in Ottoman affairs. quizlet

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we pointed them north: recollections of a cowpuncher by e.c. “teddy blue” abbott tells us of the history of nomad cowboys in north america. as the   frontiers began moving west, trails of cowboys of the 1870s and ’80s drove herds of cattle from texas to the northern ranges and railheads, and then rode back south to do it again. they gradually pushed   native americans out of their lands, until in 1889 the   government transferred white   colonists the indian land.