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Ottomans: 1200-1500s
• Turks- Islamic – NOT Arabs!
• Built massive empire: Middle East, N. Africa, & S.E. Europe
• Peak ~ 16th century (1500s)
19th Century
• Empire shrinking.
• Weak, collapsing, slow loss of territory.
• A.K.A.: “Sick Man of Europe & Asia”.
World War I
• Allied Powers (Britain, France, U.S., Russia) vs. Central Powers (Germany & Austria-Hungary)
• Ottomans join Central Powers believing they would win & needed technology from Germans.
After World War I
• 1918: WWI ends & Allied Powers win.
• Britain & France divide Ottoman Empire leaving only Turkey to Turks.
Interwar Period
• League of Nations gives “mandates”: Europeans not creating colonies, but helping countries to self-govern & become independent.
• **Great Britain given control over: Jordan, Iraq, PALESTINE!***
European Partitioning• Europeans drew boundary lines for
new countries without considering the ethnic and religious groups already living there.
• Result: CONFLICT!