Ottoman empire

Question 1

Government

Answer 1

Absolute Monarchy (Sultan+Leader)

Question 2

Geography/Empire

Answer 2

Middle East and North Africa, the last major Muslim empire, Lost Northern Africa and most European lands in the 1800s/early 1900s. On the decline and behind Europeans (sick man or Europe)

Question 3

Religion

Answer 3

Islam (Christians and Jews were tolerated and considered people of the book)

Question 4

People

Answer 4

Dominated by turks, lots of ethnicities

Question 5

Tanzimat Reforms

Answer 5

Tried to modernize/Westernize the empire and promote Ottomanism (pride in empire for all ethnicities). It failed because of a conservative reaction to them

Question 6

Crimean War

Answer 6

Put the Ottoman empire in huge debt to the Europeans who were necessary allies to defeat Russia

Question 7

Young Turk movement

Answer 7

pro-West and rights, Turkish nationalism, against monarchy, took over Turkey in 1908, caused Armenian Genocide during WWI

Question 8

Reasons for decline

Answer 8

Failed to embrace science and industrialization, antiquated government, too decentralized, corruption