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European Challenges to the Muslim World

European Challenges to the Muslim World. Rachel Cornish. Ferment in the Muslim World. By the 1500s, there were three huge Muslim empires that ruled a majority oh the world. * The Ottomans in the Middle East, * The Mughals in India, and

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European Challenges to the Muslim World

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  1. European Challenges to the Muslim World Rachel Cornish

  2. Ferment in the Muslim World • By the 1500s, there were three huge Muslim empires that ruled a majority oh the world. * The Ottomans in the Middle East, * The Mughals in India, and * The Safavids in Iran. • Then 200 years later, the empires were in a decline. • The declining empires caused central government to lose control, corruption was widespread, and Muslim scholars and religious leaders allied with the state. • Reform movements started in the 1700s and the 1800s.

  3. Challenges to the Ottoman Empire • Ottomans empire stretched across the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Europe. • By the 1800s, provincial rulers had increased their power. • Economic problems and corruption also contributed to Ottoman’s decay. • Ideas of nationalism spread from Western Europe. • The idea made many threaten to break away from the Ottoman empire, including the Middle East, and North Africa. • Some like the Greeks and Romanians gained their independence.

  4. Effort to Reform • Since the 1700s, the Ottoman rulers wanted reform. They improved education, built railroads, and made a modern military. • The reforms improved medical care, farming, and living conditions. • A group of liberals formed a movement in the 1890s called the Young Turks. • The Young Turks believed the only way to save the empire was to reform • The Young Turks overthrew the sultan in 1908.

  5. Massacre of Armenians • The Ottomans had let the minority nationalities live in their own communities and practice their own religions. • In the 1890s, nationalism started a new tension between the Turks and the minority peoples who wanted their own states. • The tension between the two caused a brutal genocide of the Armenians. • Genocide is a deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group.

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