HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Shia Islam, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Arab Spring
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Islamic state in syria and iraq - isis. In the last three years, the system that defined the middle east has begun to unravel. It did not begin with the breakdowns of the states, but with several precursors o o army o. In the 1990"s algeria was in a bitter war between islamists and the algerian. Iraq was in deep trouble long before 2011. Saddam hussein"s government rested on the minority shiite population. They killed a lot of shiites and kurds before the u. s. arrived in 2003. The u. s. allowed shiites to take power of the government, but could not keep the country from fragmenting. Key arab states were already facing serious internal challenges. Starting in 2011, there was a cascade of state collapses. Tunisia began the chain reaction o o o. A poor fruit seller had his goods confiscated by a government inspector. Protests then erupted against the army led regime in egypt o o.
