1. The Roots of Arab Bitterness
World War I
The Roots of Arab Bitterness

2. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe
Istanbul

3. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe
The Ottoman Empire reached its furthest extent by During the next two centuries, the empire began to decline until it became known as “the sick man of Europe.”

4. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

5. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe
The Ottoman Empire reached its furthest extent by During the next two centuries, the empire began to decline until it became known as “the sick man of Europe.”
By the beginning of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was, for the most part, limited to what is now Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and the Hejaz in Arabia.

6. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

7. Europe Grows Stronger than the Ottomans
1453 – The fall of Constantinople
c.1300 to 1600’s - The European Renaissance
Beginning 1300’s - The Reformation
Beginning 1400’s - The age of exploration and discovery
The expansion of trade
c.1650 to The Age of Enlightenment
c ’s - The Industrial Revolution

8. European Imperialism
1492 – The expulsion of Moorish presence from the Iberian peninsula – Spain begins trying to gain control over the western Mediterranean
’s - Ottoman’s gained lose control over the Magreb, a bunch of petty city states and ports
’s - Barbary Coast pirates raid European ships and coastal villages as far as Ireland (over a million and half Europeans kidnapped and forced into slavery in such places as Algiers)
1800’s – France began invading the Magreb

10. Ottomon’s at the beginning of WWI

12. Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe
Dardanelles
Bosphorus

14. Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhamad

15. Lawrence of Arabia

16. Lawrence of Arabia

17. Lawrence of Arabia

18. Lawrence of Arabia

19. Lawrence of Arabia

20. Lawrence of Arabia

21. Lawrence of Arabia

22. Lawrence of Arabia

23. Lawrence of Arabia

24. Lawrence of Arabia

25. T.E. Lawrence
Emir Feisal