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Europeans Claim Muslim Lands (Ottoman Empire Loses Power (Losing lots of…
Europeans Claim Muslim Lands
Ottoman Empire Loses Power
300 years
Started to decline
After Suleyman the First died, he was followed by a succession of weak sultans
Losing lots of territories
Greece gained its independence
Serbia gained self-rule
Romania
Montenegro
Cyprus
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Lands in Africa
Reforms
Selim the Third
Older janissary crops resisted
Selim was overthrown
Europeans Grab Territory
Geopolitics
Interest in or taking of land for its location or products
Example
Ottomans controlled access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic sea trade
Russia wanted passage of the Black Sea and into the Mediterranean Sea
Crimean War
Crimean War
Russia started a war on the Ottomans to try to gain land on the Black Sea
Britain and France joined the war and fought on the Ottoman's side
Preventing Russians from gaining control of the Ottomans
The Ottomans won, but revealed the weakness of Ottoman Empire's military weakness
The Great Game
Russia v.s Britain
Fought for India
Afghanistan lay between Russian & British empire
Became the center of their struggle
British withdrew from Afghanistan
Egypt Intitates Reforms
Muhammad Ali
Reforms in military & economy
Shift Egyptian agriculture to cash crop and cotton
Peasants lost their lands for planting their food crops
Suez Canal
Human-made waterway connecting the Red and Mediterranean Seas
European lend Egypt money
Egypt couldn't pay the debt
British took control
Persia Pressured to Change
No capital to develop its own resources
Battle over tobacco
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
A leader supported the modernization of Persia
Set up a tobacco boycott
Tobacco worked
Riots broke out
Rulers were forced to cancel the concession
Government weren't able to control the situation
British and Russia took control and divided into spheres of influence