1. SS7H2a: Explain how European partitioning in the Middle East after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to regional conflict

2. Hagia Sophia - Istanbul

3. Vocabulary Partition Empire
(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Empire
an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority

5. I can already mentally create a timeline…..
Breakup of Ottoman Empire
European partitioning
Regional conflict

6. Ottoman Empire
The height of Ottoman power was in the 1500s with its capital in Istanbul
It began to weaken in the 1700s and 1800s until finally ending after WWI

7. Reasons for the decline of Ottoman Power
The amount of land was too much for ineffective leaders to manage
European countries had become too powerful
They were slowly losing control of the land in its empire

9. THE FALL
The Ottomans joined the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary) in WWI and LOST
After WWI, European leaders decided the boundaries of the new countries inside of the once dominant Ottoman Empire

11. Partitioning
The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire paid little attention to religious or ethnic groups who were already living in these areas.
European leaders also didn’t take into consideration the concept of nationalism

13. Nationalism
Nationalism – the idea that countries are most successful if the people who live there share some common cultural, historic, or religious beliefs.
Nationalist Flag
of Kurdistan
(doesn’t exist)

14. Predict (don’t write down)
How would the partitioning of the Middle East without regard to ethnic or religious boundaries impact the future of the region?

15. The Result of Partitioning
LOTS of conflict
Between ethnic groups (Kurd minority)
Between religious groups (Muslim vs. Jew)