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Assignment:

1. Name two legacies the period of Late Antiquity left for the early Islamic community.

2. When was the early modern period (beginning and end)? When did the modern period begin?

3. Three events took place at the dawn of the early modern period that would define Middle Eastern  and global history for centuries thereafter. Name them.

4. The modern period was the period in which two global systems-one political, one economic-emerged and spread throughout the world. What were they?

5. Name the three ways the two global systems spread to the Middle East.

6. In one sentence, why did Russia become the greatest antagonist of the Ottoman Empire  beginning in the eighteenth century? Why did Great Britain oppose Russian aims in the region?

7. In two sentences, what was the tanzimat and why is it important?

8. Name 7 effects of the "Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation."

9. Name the 4 reasons why World War I might be considered the most important political event in the history of the modern Middle East.

10. Name the two ways states were created in the wake of World War I.

11. Perhaps the greatest legacy of the tanzimat was that it enabled people to see themselves as part of a greater community or "society."

This, in turn, created the conditions the great social and political movements of the nineteenth and twentieth century to emerge-including (but not limited to) nationalism, constitutionalism, and sectarianism. In no more than a few sentences, explain.