The Roots of Arab Bitterness

World War I

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

Istanbul

The Ottoman Empire reached its furthest extent by 1700. During the next two centuries, the empire began to decline until it became known as “the sick man of Europe.”

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

The Ottoman Empire reached its furthest extent by 1700. During the next two centuries, the empire began to decline until it became known as “the sick man of Europe.”

By the beginning of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was, for the most part, limited to what is now Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and the Hejaz in Arabia.

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

1453 – The fall of Constantinople c.1300 to 1600’s - The European RenaissanceBeginning 1300’s - The ReformationBeginning 1400’s - The age of exploration and

discoveryThe expansion of tradec.1650 to 1780 - The Age of Enlightenmentc. 1750-1850’s - The Industrial Revolution

Europe Grows Stronger than the Ottomans

1492 – The expulsion of Moorish presence from the Iberian peninsula – Spain begins trying to gain control over the western Mediterranean

1500-1600’s - Ottoman’s gained lose control over the Magreb, a bunch of petty city states and ports

1500-1800’s - Barbary Coast pirates raid European ships and coastal villages as far as Ireland (over a million and half Europeans kidnapped and forced into slavery in such places as Algiers)

1800’s – France began invading the Magreb

European Imperialism

Ottomon’s at the beginning of WWI

Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe

Dardanelles

Bosphorus

Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhamad

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

T.E. Lawrence

Emir Feisal