Egypt, India, and Industrialization

Why were Africa and the Ottoman Empire struggling in the world of the early nineteenth century?

• Political revolutions had left them behind and un-democratic

• Rights had not been secured for women and the lower classes

• Industrialization was happening so fast and changing the world rapidly

Which of the following does not describe the status of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire?

• Unemployment and de-industrialization hit the empire due to the spread of cheap European goods.

• Egypt successfully competed with European industrialization.

• Africa was increasingly seen as a place to extract raw materials from.

• Prior to Industrialization, the Ottoman Empire was a major center of manufactoring.

How did Muhammad Ali modernize the military?

Select all that apply.

• Made an elite force out of enslaved children

• Hired European advisors

• Required peasants to enlist.

• Bought modern weapons

What resource was at the heart of Egypt's modernization?

• cotton

• oil

• wheat

• rubber

Europeans and their banks were able to dictate policies in Egypt because

• Egypt fell into debt with European banks.

• European military powers overthrew Egypt's leaders.

• Egypt needed European cotton as raw material for its factories.

As opposed to Britain, Egypt's factories were powered by

• coal

• water

• animals

• oil

It was hard for Egyptian cottons to be sold at competitive prices because Europeans (select two)

• banned the import of Egyptian textiles.

• put tariffs on imported Egyptian textiles.

• forbade the Ottomans from placing tariffs on European textiles.

• shut down all Egyptian textile factories.

Egyptian scholars such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi believed in order to modernize

• European ideas needed to be fully embraced while Islamic traditions were to be abandoned.

• Islamic traditions needed to be embraced and European ideas rejected.

• European ideas about modernization could be blended with Islamic beliefs.

The Suez Canal was valuable to Europeans because

• it connected them more closely to their empires.

• it contained large deposits of silver and gold.

• they could bring industrialization into the region.

Who eventually came to take control of the Suez Canal in the 1870s?

• Egypt

• Britain

• France

• Ottoman Empire