CHAPTER 12 SECTION 3 THE MUSLIM WORLD MR. BELLISARIO WOODRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL DECEMBER 9, 2013

LESSON OBJECTIVES WHAT WRE SOURCES OF STRESS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD? WHAT PROBLEMS DID THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FACE? HOW DID EGYPT SEEK TO MODERNIZE? WHY WERE EUROPEAN POWERS INTERESTED IN IRAN?

QUESTION #1 EFFECT- INTERNAL REVOLTS: MULTI-ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE EMPIRE SOUGHT THEIR INDEPENDENCE. IN THE BALKINS THE GREEKS, SERBS, BULGARIANS AND THE ROMANIANS DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE. REMEMBER THIS AREA BECAME KNOWN AS THE BALKIN POWER KEG!

QUESTION #2 CAUSE- OTTOMON RULERS IMPLEMENTED REFORMS IN THE LATE 1700’S THAT LED TO BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS. AS A RESULT A POPULATION EXPLOSION!

QUESTION #3 EFFECT- INCREASED TENSIONS TRIGGERED BRUTAL GENOCIDE OF THE ARMENIANS. ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING THE RUSSIANS THEY WERE ROUNDED- UP AND SENT TO WHAT YOU WOULD CALL CONCENTRATION CAMPS BEFORE AND DURING WWI! THEY WERE CHRISTIANS!

QUESTION #4 EFFECT- MUHAMMAD ALI (FATHER OF EGYYPT) EGYPT BECAME INVOLVED IN WORLD TRADE AND WAS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A MAJOR MIDDLE EASTERN POWER. (COTTON ETC.) BRITISH PROTECTORATE!

QUESTION #5 CAUSE- IN 1875, RULER OF EGYPT WAS FORCED TO SELL HIS SHARES IN THE SUEZ CANAL TO PAY OFF HIS DEBTS! THE BRITISH PURCHASED MOST OF THEM, GIVING THEM CONTROL OF THE CANAL!

QUESTION #6 EFFECT- RUSSIAN AND BRITAIN COMPETED FOR CONTROL OF IRANIAN OIL FIELDS.

QUESTION #7 MAHDI- IN THE BRITISH SUDAN, MUHAMMAD AHMAD KNOWN AS MAHDI, SAVIOR OF THE FAITH, RESISTED BRITISH CONTROL!

QUESTION #8 YOUNG TURKS, 1908 THESE CLASSICAL LIBERALS WANTED MAJOR REFORM IN WHAT WAS A DECLINING OTTOMON EMPIRE. WORLD WAR I, PUT A END TO THE REFORMS!

QUESTION #9 GENOCIDE, DESTROYING A ENTIRE RELGIOUS OR ETHNIC GROUP! IN THIS CASE IT WAS THE TURKS TRYING TO WIPE OUT THE ARMENIANS (WWI)!

QUESTION #10 MUHAMMAD ALI, ( ) KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF EGYPT! RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY REFORMS THAT STARTED TO MAKE EGYPT A MIDDLE EASTERN POWER!