The History of the Middle East II
Modern Middle East
Topic Five:  Abdul Hamid and Despotism

 

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Identifications:  Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.
Sultan Abdul Aziz, Murad V, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Bulgarian Crisis, Bulgarian Exarchate, Crimean Tartars, Circassians, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Husayn Avni Pasha, Damad Mahmud Jelal al-Din, Constitution of 1878, Ottoman Public Debt Administration, Yildiz Palace, The Armenian Question, Greco-Turkish War (1897), Berlin to Baghdad Railway, Hijaz Railroad, William II, Anatolian Railway Company, Namik Kemal, Murzstag Program, Tevfik Fikret, Ahmed Midhat, Kuchuk Mehmed Said Pasha
 
Essay
1.  Discuss the social, religious, political and international issues that led to the downfall of Midhat Pasha.
2.  Discuss the social, political, economic, and educational development of the Ottoman Empire under Abdul Hamid II
Reading Assignment
Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapters 25-26
 

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