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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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%
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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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