Middle East Empires

The middle east empire faced few study difficulties in adapting to the various challengespresented by the west. Few of them were Economic Discovery of new flock routes to Asian countries and the vast continent ofAmerica, slashed the monopoly of the middle east empires as a important junction between thecontinents of Asia and Europe. Trade activities slowed down. Simultaneously, in an effort to fill in with the modern technology and industrialization, they borrowed huge loans from theEuropean nations. Subsequently the debt rose to alarming extents. Reduced geographicalimportance was at the base of the economic problems.Weak swayer and policy failures The rising sentiments of nationalism saw many factions growstrong enough to form a nation of their own. Here ethnicity played a major role. Greece andSerbia are examples to prove this point.These nations became independent, resulting intodisintegration of the large empire. On the other hand, European giants, backed by theirtechnologic al and economic advantages, accessed many empires. Accession of Egypt by theBritish is an example of such European invasion. The reason down the stairslying the success of thesesteps was weakness of the rulers. They failed in evolving policies which could meet theaspirations of the changing social patterns.Cultural gap The empires of the middle-east were under the heavy and only influence ofIslam. This was the base of certain amount of deafness to the changes occurring in Europe. Therulers were not agile enough to sense the implications of the developments of Europe, because ofthe inherent rigidities of Islam. A real example is the non tolerance towards all the other faithsexcept Islam, by all the rulers, until the late 19th century. Effort was made to repair the damagesdone by bringing changes which gave equality to all the faiths, but it was too late by then. Thiscreated a cultural gap, both within the empires amongst various factions of the population andwithout between the in novational European thoughts and the convention Islamic thoughts.(OttomanEmpire)These were the difficulties faced by the middle east empires in adapting to the changes.References Ottoman Empire, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, Retrieved on 29 September 2007from http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire