HIS102Y1 : OttomAN copy.doc
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Talking points: we are talking about more than one empire, their all in different kinds of open and/or indirect conflict. Sometimes they are in competition and sometimes they are also in cooperation with each other. It became a problem because, what do you do when such a large empire is threatening to fall apart: the crimean war which was an attempt to rebalance power among the empires, the great game. Timeline: 1815-1914 ( roughly from the congress of vienna to the first world war) They called it the sick man of asia. The ottoman empire as sick man of asia . Examples: russo-turkish wars: there were several of these wars, in many of these the russians came out ahead, in some of those wars the russians gained the balkans (what used to be yugoslavia) and the. Mountain passes were the routes of trade and possible routes of invasion.
