1. Death of Post Classical Empire: Ottoman Empire and Qing Dynasty
Mr. Charnley
AP World History

3. Ottoman Empire Economic Decline Dependence on European manufacturing
Dhimmi merchants loyal to Europeans
Artisans displaced by factory products

4. Ottoman Empire Foreign Threats Habsburg Empire (17th century)
Russian Empire (18th century)
19th century
1830 Greek independence
Crimean War ( )
1867 Serbian Independence

5. Ottoman Empire Survival “Sick Man of Europe” British support
1826 Janissaries disbanded
Tanzimat Reforms
European-style school system
Railroad network
Postal delivery service
Constitution of 1876
Legal reform

6. Ottoman Empire Young Turks
“Ottoman Society for Union and Progress”, 1889
Wanted to abolish sultanate and restore Constitution of 1876

7. Egypt Mamluks Slave class which overthrew Fatimid Caliphate
Vassals of Ottoman Empire
1798 defeated by Napoleon’s French forces
1801 British drove French out of Egypt

8. Egypt Muhammad Ali (not the boxer)
Egyptian officer who took over after French retreat
Westernized Egyptian military
Prevented from industrializing by Britain

9. Egypt Khedives Cash-crop nation Military campaigns in Sudan
Foreign debt
cotton industry
Suez Canal

10. Qing Dynasty Political Decay Corrupt civil service system
Wealthy merchant class bought court positions
Ruling families spent state funding on personal luxuries
Natural disasters and high taxes displaced poor peasantry

11. Qing Dynasty Foreign Influence Anti-European ethnocentrism
European technological and organizational superiority

12. Qing Dynasty Opium Wars (1839-1842)
Taiping Rebellion (1850’s to 1860’s)
Prophet Hong Xiuquan
Rebels captured Nanjing
European-backed Qing Dynasty
Scholar-gentry sided with Qing

13. Qing Dynasty
Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion