A Brady Sprague Powerpoint
MUSLIM LANDS FALL TO IMPERIALIST
DEMANDS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pro/Con of Imperialism
Background Information
Effects of Imperialism
Western Powers Involved
Indigenous Response
Results of Independence
ADVANTAGES OF IMPERIALISM
Increase in the power of Great Britian, France and
Ethiopia
Modernization of Military in Ethiopia and Egypt
600% increase in Egyptian trade, postal service,
800 miles of rail lines, doubled cotton exports and
thrity-fold revenue increases
Explorers map the inner continent of Africa,
headwaters or rivers found
Freed slaves at British Sierra Leone become
educated and distinguished
DISADVANTAGES OF IMPERIALISM
Egypt becomes paritally occupied by European
powers after debts cannot be repaid
Resistence in Algeria to the French invasion
leads to thirty years of war in the region
OVERALL EFFECTS OF IMPERIALISM
Northern Muslim Africa became rapidly
modernized, becoming at one point the center
stage for world cotton exports.
Gold exports increase to combat falling slave
trade.
Crimean war begins to divy up Ottoman territory
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Egypt began its rapid modernization to resist
foreign invaders, and the debts of this led to
partial occupation
Ethiopia, a Christian state modernized to
reclaim lands lost to Muslims
Powerful African kings resisted aboltionism in
British colonies because of the profit in the
slave trade
EFFECTS OF IMPERIALISM
Ottoman Empire becomes smaller, and the first
constitutioned Muslim state
The defeat of the Russian Empire in the Crimen
war will lead to its rapid industiralization
Modernization throughout northern Africa
Direct rule from Britian and France in holdings
(Algeria, parts of Egypt)
WESTERN NATIONS INVOVLED
French forces invade Algeria in 1830
British invade Ethiopia, but later withdraw
Both France Britian invade and partially occupy
Egypt after debts owed to European investors
cannot be repaid
Russia fights Crimean war over Ottoman lands
against Britian and France
INGIDINOUS RESPONSE
Fierce resistence came from states like Algeria,
where Muslim Holy man Abd Al-Qadir began a
30 year resistence movement
Egyptian trade with the west grows 600%
RESULTS OF INDEPENDENCE
In 1954 Algeria led a guerilla campaign and
secured indpendence
Alegeria is now part of OPEC and the Arab
League, exporting oil for profit
Egypt became independent of Great Britian on
the 22nd of Feburary, 1922 after constant
revolting from the people.
Egypt is now the permadent center of the Arab
League at Cairo
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