1. Ottoman Empire
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2. Helpful 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

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

10. The Ottoman Empire
Nomadic Turks arrived as raiders to the area of modern Turkey from the east in the 11th century.
The Ottomans, a group of Turks, grew in power until they had established the Ottoman Empire by 1299.
In 1453 the Ottomans took Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul and ruled until
The Ottoman Empire began to decline in the 16th century with the spread of nationalism and the empire’s reluctance to modernize.

11. World War I and the Ottoman Empire
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire allied with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Ottomans were no match for the modernized and industrialized British and French armies.
The Ottoman Empire ended in 1918 when they were defeated and signed the Mudros Armistice, dividing their lands between Britain, France, Russia, and Greece.
A nationalist movement began, and after the Turkish National Liberation War ( ), Turkey gained its freedom from European nations.
The Lausanne Peace Treaty was signed in 1923, creating an independent Turkish country.
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