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- 2. Another word for pilgrimage.
- 5. Great Britain and _______ made secret plans to divide much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves.
- 6. The Ottoman sultans ruled over a __________ empire in which the people spoke many languages and practiced multiple religions.
- 8. Who ruled the Safavid Empire?
- 9. A nationalist movement that called for Europe's Jews to move to their ancient homeland.
- 11. Who declared war in an effort to unite Muslims?
- 13. In 1917 Palestine became this type of home for the Jewish people.
- 14. This Affair pointed to the tensions between the rights of the individual versus the greater needs of the state.
- 15. Who was the overall head of the Ottoman Empire?
- 17. The conflict between the Ottomans and the Safavids was based on geography and ________.
- 18. _______, or commander of Mecca offered to launch an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in return for British support for an independent Arab nation after the war.
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- 1. In the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, Great Britain and France decided that this region should be handled differently.
- 3. What canal became a vital transportation link between Britain and its colony of India?
- 4. Great Britain proclaimed that this place as a nation preparing for independence under British protection.
- 7. In December 1918, Allied forces entered this capital and took the sultan into custody.
- 10. Who did the Young Turks strengthen ties with in an effort to modernize, westernize, and industrialize the empire?
- 12. Britain promised that this city would remain an independent Arab state in return for Arab help against the Ottomans in the War.
- 14. Weak sultans, inflation, and the abandonment of the laws of Islam brought on the _______ of the Ottoman Empire.
- 16. Also known as a community of non-Muslim people organized according to religion in which minority groups held a limited amount of power to rule themselves.