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Ch 10: Suez Canal
Question | Answer |
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What empire did Egypt become part of in the Middle Ages? | Islamic empire |
What empire did Egypt become part of in the 1500s? | Ottoman empire |
Muhammad Ali claimed to be ruling in whose name? | Ottoman sultan |
What did Muhammad Ali's son, Said Pasha, give permission to a French company to do? | to dig a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea |
What was the canal called? | Suez Canal |
How would the canal make trade with the Far East easier for European ships? | by sailing from the Mediterranean down into the red Sea and then turn east |
How long did the canl take to finish | ten years |
What title of honor did the Ottoman sultan give to Ismail Pasha, ruler of Egypt? | khedive or sovereign ruler |
List things that Ismail Pasha did to make Egypt stronger. | Opened classrooms for girls, built new roads and railroads, new factories and cotton mills built, took over some of the Sudan |
How did Ismail Pasha weaken Egypt? | borrowed over 10 million from France and Great Britain |
How did Pasha raise extra money? | Sold the Suez Canal to the British |
What did France and Great Britain demand? | Control of Egypt's treasury |
When Ismail's son tawfiq became khedive, who was really in control of Egypt? | Great Britain |