Thursday, November 14, 2013

November 14, 2013

Homework - For Tuesday (11/19) finish reading the notes on Imperialism - this will cover European Imperialism in Africa.

Question # 4Imperialism in Middle East - In conjunction with the history of the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, consider the geographic changes created by the decline as shown in the map below:




How did the weakening of the Ottoman Empire create conflicts between England, Russia and Austria-Hungary  as they each sought to expand their sphere of influence for strategic reasons?