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Title: The Armenian Genocide


1
The Armenian Genocide
2
The Beginnings
  • Christians under Ottoman rule had limited rights
  • Many other countries, like Greece, broke free
    from Ottomans (1870s)
  • Armenians remained passive

3
The Beginnings
  • Soon urged the Great Powers (Brit., Rus., Fra.)
    for help by the late 1870s
  • Sultan Hamid ordered his ppl to deal with the
    Armenians
  • Hamidian Massacres 1894-96
  • More than 200,000 Arm. killed

4
Young Turks
  • Young Turks overthrew Hamid in 1908? Arm. hopeful
    for ?
  • Adana Massacre 1909 tried to overthrow Young
    Turksended up massacring 30,000 Arm. b/c they
    supported Young Turks

5
Genocide
  • Ottoman Empire entered WWI (Central Powers)
  • Minister of War ordered Arm. to become soldiers
    (rebels would be shot)
  • He worried they would support Allied Power Russia

6
Genocide
  • April 24, 1915- 250 Armenian intellectuals
    imprisoned under Mehmed Talats orders

7
  • Anyone sensed of being a threat was either
    killed or deported
  • Sent into Syrian desert, no food/water burned in
    caves
  • Allowed to be robbed, raped, or killed along the
    way

8
Over 1.5 million lost their lives, even more lost
their way of life
9
Living in North Africa, SW Central Asia
  • Ch. 19 Sec.1

10
Food
  • Challenge to meet needs of rapidly growing
    population.
  • Saudi Arabia can buy food with oil
  • Afgh. can only grow sm. amt of food (poor soil)
  • Israel has great climate
  • grows/exports lots

11
Usable Land
  • Egypt has least amount of usable land
  • Morocco Turkey seem to have most
  • Most countries with little arable land compensate
    with herding

12
Usable Land
  • To make up for little usable land countries may
  • Have intensive irrigation (some drain seas ?)
  • Mining industries
  • Focus on other industries (oil, etc.)

13
Oil
  • Oil is, by far, most
  • impt. commodity
  • 67 of worlds oil, 33 of worlds nat. gas
  • Industries using oil
  • Refining shipping
  • Steel, textiles, electricity production
  • Petrochemicals (fertilizers, medicines, plastics,
    paints)

14
Service Industries
  • GDP gross domestic product
  • Value of goods services produced in country per
    year
  • Bahrain is 60 service industry
  • Banking, real estate, insurance
  • Highest GDP

15
Service Industries
  • Tourism is huge b/c
  • Religious importance
  • Historical importance
  • Mediterranean climate/beaches
  • Iran limits of tourists to decrease western
    influence

16
Transportation
  • Most waterways connected with straits gulfs
  • Strategic and economic value
  • Almost all oil exports sent thru waterways ()
  • Vast of pipelines to carry oil over land to
    coasts

17
Communications
  • Problems
  • Too much government control
  • Lots of deserts and mountains
  • The New Silk Road
  • Telecommunications highway built over old Silk
    Road route
  • Cable for 20 countries 16,767 miles

18
OPEC
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • 11 members
  • Can restrict oil shipments
  • Can raise oil prices
  • Can enact embargos
  • (All have been done to U.S.)

19
Interdepence is Key
  • They provide oil and other industrial goods
    others provide foreign aid, trade deals, loans,
    food goods.
  • Despite our political disagreements, we cannot
    live without one another
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