Notes from 4/9/19
Keep your traditions, customs, language? Nationalism What does it mean? Keep your traditions, customs, language? OR Modernize? We will be looking at three examples of nationalism
Center of the Ottoman Empire Notes: Present day Turkey was at the center of the Ottoman Empire Image retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001699427/ Istanbul, capital of Turkey, circa 1900
NOTES: Laws and social norms discriminated against women Examples: strict rules of dress, no rights Image retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632301/ Women sorting silk cocoons in Antioch, 1913
Notes: Ottoman Empire lost WWI Left image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1913b.jpg Right image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1920.jpg
Left image retrieved from http://en. wikipedia Right image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1923.jpg
Mustafa Kemal becomes president Notes: Mustafa Kemal leads Turkish nationalists in fighting invaders, overthrows last Ottoman sultan and establishes Turkey Mustafa Kemal becomes president Known as: -Father of Modern Turkey -Ataturk
Notes: Atatürk’s Reforms -Separated laws of religion from laws of the nation -Created a new legal system based on European law -Granted women the right to vote - The nationalistic path TURKEY took: Westernization, Modernization and industrialization Image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ataturk-September_20,_1928.jpg
Central Historical Question A deeper look: Did Atatürk’s reforms actually improve the status of women in Turkey? Fill in the key idea from each document
Turkey, Persia/Iran and Saudi Arabia Which path of nationalism did they take? Use textbook (p.890-891)and handout Modernization? Keeping traditions and customs? A mix of the above?
Writing: (Collected) On separate paper, write your name and date (4/9/19) In your opinion, what path should nationalists take in order to make their nation better? (Should they keep strong traditions and customs or should they modernize/westernize? Or is there a different path?) Support your response