Turkey (the Ottoman Empire): constitution and the Young Turks
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Compare Turkey with Iran and China and write the problems common to all three.
Foreign debt and dependence, backward farming, absolute rule and struggles for reform, great-power spheres of influence.
2
Tabulate the causes and results of the Young Turk revolution.
Causes: the sultan’s oppression, financial crisis, debts. Results: the constitution was restored, parliament convened, Abdulhamid II was later deposed.
3
Why can it be argued that a Turkish–German alliance was not inevitable? Write one argument.
The government could have chosen another path: neutrality or agreement with the Entente; the alliance was signed secretly by a small leading group.
4
Calculate: Abdulhamid II ruled from 1876 to 1909. How many years?
33