HIST 1010 Lecture : The Middle East and World War I Regarding the Ottoman Empire before WWI, WWI and the Arab Revolt, Zionism and the Balfour Declaration.
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The middle east and wwi: the ottoman empire before wwi. Ottoman turks controlled a huge part of what is now central europe as late as the beginning of the 19c. By 1914 the arabs started acquiring nationalist ideas. This took a long time to come about because even though they were all muslim, the different sects divided them. 20thc middle east was very appealing to europe especially great britain and france. Also before wwi oil was discovered in the middle east. Britain was updating its fleet and started using oil instead of coal. Empire entered wwi on germany"s side making france and britain even more interested in the. Middle east: world war i and the arab revolt. Britain in an attempt to get ottoman empire out of the war encouraged the arabs to revolt against them. Hussein, sherif of mecca was in charge of the arabian people unofficially. Henry mcmahon (british diplomat) helped hussein orchestrate the revolt.
