European Partitioning of SW Asia

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How did European involvement in Southwest Asia impact the region after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire?

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Political borders were decided by Europeans without considering the political and historical connections in the region.

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What large empire broke up after World War I?

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Ottoman Empire

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Which two countries divided the Middle East into countries after World War I?

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Britain and France

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Which of the following causes the MOST conflict in the Middle East?
water and gold,
land and religion,
immigration and currency,
natural resources and capital

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land and religion

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What does partition mean?

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the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts

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What ethnic group did not receive a homeland or actual country, but instead was split into parts of other countries?

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Kurds

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What led to the end of the Ottoman Empire at the close of World War I?

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the Ottomans were on the losing side of the war, along with Germany and Italy

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Who drew the boundaries of the new countries created from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I?

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European politicians

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Why are many of the current problems in the Middle East connected to the way the Ottoman Empire was divided?

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Those drawing the boundaries ignored religious and ethnic ties.

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Over what three continents did Ottoman territory cover for hundreds of years?

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Europe, Asia, Africa