 Circassians and Abazins from North of the Black Sea may have also be involved in the Ottoman slave trade.In Muscovite Russia the area of aristocratic houses where women were secluded was known as "terem".In Mexico, Aztec ruler Montezuma II, who met Cortes, kept 4,000 concubines; every member of the Aztec nobility was supposed to have had as many consorts as he could afford.