Reference no: EM132187290
Chapter 5
In what way was the late Ottoman Empire different from other empires of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century?
How would you describe the situation of religious and ethnic minorities within the Ottoman Empire? What can be said about the situation of the Ottoman Christians?
What were the differences in the situation of the Greek and Armenian Christians?
How did the Ottoman attitude towards the minorities evolve over the course of the nineteenth century early twentieth century?
Mann discusses the influx of the Muslim refugees to the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans and Russia to the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century? What groups can one single out within the mass of the refugees? What was their impact?
What goals did the Turkish nationalists (Young Turks) originally pursue? In that way their approach was different from that of the traditional Ottoman elites?
What aspects of the European thought attracted them most? What specific European models did they pursue? How did their program and attitudes evolve over time?
What were the initial relations between the Young Turks and the Armenian nationalists and how did they evolve over time? What were the reasons for this change?
What were the political consequences of the Young Turk's switch from Islamic to Turkish identity?
How did the international developments of the early twentieth century affect the political attitudes of the Young Turks and their policies?
What factors brought the Ottoman Empire into the danger zone of ethnic cleansing?