Europeans Claim Muslim Lands By: Aide Miranda, Carolina Thomas, Nohemi (mimi) Gomez Palacio y Sebastia Chavarria (chavs)

Ottoman empire loses power

The ottoman empire made attempts to hold back European imperialist power.

When the great Ottoman sultan died in 1566 he was followed by a succession of weak sultans

The Palace Government broke into fractions

The weak power brought problems….

Corruption and Theft (fraud or steal) that caused financial dilemma but……

The money was devaluated so it caused inflation

When Selim the third came into power (1789) he tried to modernize his army

Meanwhile Greece gained its independence..

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Europeans grab territory

Nohemí Gómez Palacio

EGYPT INITIAES REFORMS

Egypt decided to adjust to the modern world and made some political and social reforms to block European domination from its land and avoid being consumed by the modern world.

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Muhammad Ali emerged as a new leader after Napoleon failed to win Egypt

He had been sent by the Ottomans in an expeditionary force to win Egypt but he broke free from their control

From |831 he fought some battles and gained control of Syria and Arabia

His allies and him were recognized as hereditary rulers of Egypt

He made reforms in the military and the economy He directed agriculture in Egypt to a plantation of cotton

and brought Egypt to international marketplace But peasants were forced to grow cash crops instead of

food crops

MILITARY AND ECONOMIC REFORM

Isma´il (Muhammed´s grandson) continued the efforts to modernize Egypt

He supported the construction of the Suez Canal (a human-made waterway that cut throught the Isthmus of Suez)

It connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean It was built with French money and Egyptian labor It opened in 1869 Ismail´s projects of modernization were expensive and

Egypt had a big debt with Europe The British ended up getting control of the canal and

occupied Egypt in 1882

THE SUEZ CANAL

Persia Pressured to Change

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Conclusion

With this activity we learned that the Europeans also wanted to exploit Muslim lands; like Britain, Russia and Asia wanted Persia. Also India became a colony that experienced enormous changes for Britain.

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