1. Today’s Agenda Quiz retakes: Lecture: Audrey Stephanie Kaleb Delisha
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Lecture:
Quick review
Move on to Section 3

2. Muslim Lands Fall to Imperialist Demands
Chapter 11 Section 3

3. Why do we care? Main idea: Why it matters now?
European nations expanded their empires by seizing territories from Muslim states.
Why it matters now?
Political events in this vital resource area are still influenced by actions from the imperialistic period.
What resources?

4. Geopolitics
An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products.
Access to Mediterranean and Atlantic sea trade
Discovery of oil in Persian and the Arabian Peninsula around 1900

5. The Crimean War 1853 Fought between the Russians and the Ottomans.
Britain and France joined the Ottomans against Russia.
Russia aided the Slavic people to rebel against the Ottomans, causing the empire to lose land.

6. Modernizing Egypt with the Suez Canal Opened in 1869, went under British control in
Built using French money and Egyptian labor. The canal combined with irrigation projects and communication networks, Egypt owed $450 million to European bankers.

7. Voice from the Past
British imperialist, Joseph Chamberlain to Parliament:
“I approve of the continued occupation of Egypt; and for the same reasons I have urged upon this Government,…the necessity for using every legitimate opportunity to extend our influence and control in that great African continent which is now being opened up to civilization and to commerce…” (1894)

8. Exit Ticket
Briefly explain what geopolitics means and how it relates to imperialism.