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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of how the industrial state developed in the Middle East. Trends including the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the discovery of oil are emphasized. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
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coupled with the ever-increasing influence of western values from Britain and France led to the gradual transformation of the Middle East from a solidified Empire to a loose collection of
nation-states that would be varyingly committed to the sovereignty of Islamic values and to the emerging Western ideals of state and industry. This paragraph helps the student summarize the
chapter from the provided material. In 1908, the Ottoman Empire would meet the end of its more than five-hundred year reign at the hands of the "Young Turk" revolution. The
reforms instituted by the revolution would be dramatically costly to the Middle East, not only in financial terms, but also in regards to the regions political alliances. Seeing an opportunity
with the dissolution of the empire, Britain and France moved in to displace the weakened arab states, and integrated them into their own national structures, with France taking Syria and
Britain acquiring Iraq and Palestine. Later, the group known as the Kemalists would take power in Turkey and institute a broad westernization of the country as a whole; this, coupled
with the discovery of oil in various Middle Eastern states in the early part of the 20th century led to the increasing development of centralized state powers devoted to the
development of industry in countries such as Iran. The Ottoman Empire is notable in world history for lasting as long as it did (well into the 20th century). Prior
to its dissolution, it had governed the Middle East for nearly six hundred years, and had achieved a state of relative peace and stability. However, economic interests among European nations
enhanced the destabilization of the old Arab state at a time when it was most precarious. In that the Middle East is now largely characterized by partisan conflicts between nation
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