Chapter 24-1 & 24-3

Building Overseas Empires

European Claims in Muslim Regions

Imperialism
The domination by one country of the
political, economic, or cultural life of
another country or region.

Why?
Economic
Interest
Industrial
Revolution

Why?
Military Motives
Global bases
competition

Why?
Religious Goals
Missionaries

Technology
Medicine
law

Why?
Social Darwinism
Survival of the Fittest

The Spread of Western Imperialism

Geographic Luck
Weakness of Non-Western States
Ottoman
Mughal
Qing

Forms of Imperialism
French Direct Rule

French Official & Soldiers

Impose culture

BritishIndirect Rule

Local officials used

Educate the youth in Britain
Protectoratelocal leaders left in place.

European Claims in Muslim

Regions
Chapter 24-3

Three Major Muslim Empires1500s

Ottoman Empire
Middle East

Safavids
Iran

Mughals
India

State of Decline
Loss of Control over nobles, military elites, guilds.
Corruption

Reform Movements
Strict Religious Piety & Rules
Sudan
Muhammad Ahmadfirecly resisted the British

Wahhabi movement
Saudi Arabia
Refused schools of theology and law

Ottoman Problems
Nationalist Revolts
Balkans, Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Armenians

European Pressure
France, Russia, Britain, & Germany all fight for control of the region.
Westernization of education, government, and technology.

Young Turks & Armenian Genocide

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