SOCIETIES AT CROSSROADS: RESPONDING TO THE WEST AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
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OTTOMANS
1. Identify the major internal and external problems the Ottoman Empire Faced by
the early 1800s.
2. How is the Ottoman Empire considered a multicultural empire?
3. How did industrialization in Western Europe undermine the Ottoman economy?
4. Name the two Balkan nationalists movements from the Ottoman Empire in the
early 1800s.
5. The most significant loss to the Ottoman Empire was the loss of Egypt. The
invasion by the France and loss of Egypt caused local elites to seize power.
General Muhammad Ali became the victor. In what ways did Muhammad Ali
make Egypt an autonomous region within the empire?
6. What was the reasoning for Great Britain to involve itself in the Crimean War
(1853-1856)?
7. Identify and explain the selective westernizing reforms of the Ottoman Empire
a. Sultan Mahmud II
b. Tanzimat Reforms
c. The Young Turks
8. In what ways did Sultan Abdul Hamid take action to return to an absolusist in the
late 1800s-early 1900s?
9. Explain the Young Turk Coup of 1908 against Sultan Abdul Hamid
10. What was not altered about Ottoman society despite some westernizing
reforms?