What Empire ruled over Egypt and the Sudan before Britain?
Ottoman
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What country persuaded Egypt to break away from the Ottoman Empire and invested heavily when?
France, 1850
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When did Frenchmen Ferdinand de Lesseps obtain the Khedive's permission to create a canal connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea?
1854
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When did the Suez Canal officially open?
1869
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by 1875, what % of ships using the canal were British?
80%
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How much money was Disraeli loaned by the Rothschild bank and what percentage of Suez Canal shares did he purchase?
£4 million 44%
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What sectors of Egypt were invested in by the British?
railway, over 1000 miles of railway track laid. Egyptian army reequipped with British weapons; schools, roads and buildings also constructed
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How was Egypt's economic crisis resolved and when did the crisis occur?
Anglo-French Rescue Plan (1878); French controlled government spending; Britain responsible for raising revenue; pressured the Sultan to replace Ismail with his compliant son Tewfik Pasha in 1879
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What were the consequences of the Anglo-French rescue plan?
starvation, unemployment, rioting, military rebellion.
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What movement occurred in 1882 in retaliation to the Anglo-French rescue plan?
Egyptian Nationalist Movement led by Colonel Arabi Pasha, which aimed to end Turkish control of Egypt and Anglo-French control of the the economy
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How many Europeans died at the Alexandria Riots in June 1882?
50
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When did the Rebellion officially end?
October 1882
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What percentage of Egypt's imports were British?
40%
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What raw resource trade was important to the British in their textile industry?
Egyptian Cotton
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How many miles did the Suez Canal cut to India?
6000 miles
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What percentage of British foreign trade went through the Suez Canal?
13%
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What military advantages were there in Britain having control of the Suez Canal?
allowed fast deployment of troops to India in case of another mutiny
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Card 2
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What country persuaded Egypt to break away from the Ottoman Empire and invested heavily when?
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France, 1850
Card 3
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When did Frenchmen Ferdinand de Lesseps obtain the Khedive's permission to create a canal connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea?
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Card 4
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When did the Suez Canal officially open?
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by 1875, what % of ships using the canal were British?
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