Directions: After reading the chapter in your textbook, Read and Consider the following study materials very carefully, and Answer the study questions as succinctly as possible.
 


  
Stavrianos Ch.11: Middle East 
 Ottoman Empire 
 Egypt 
 Persia (Iran) 

1.  Where is Islam the predominant religion worldwide? 
2.  Describe political annexations in the Middle East in the nineteenth century. 

3.  How did the Middle East become fully integrated into the world economy? 
4.  Describe Western cultural intrusion into the Ottoman Empire. 
       Tanzimat 
        political and economic reforms 

5.  What does the last sentence on p. 207 mean? 

6.  Why did local elites support the extractive structure? p. 212 (see also p. 236) 

 


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