WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ Empire broke up and became modern day Turkey.
A
Ottoman
B
Aztec
C
Mayan
D
British Colonial
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ottoman Empire officially ended in 1922 when the title of Ottoman Sultan was eliminated. Turkey was declared a republic on October 29, 1923, when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), an army officer, founded the independent Republic of Turkey.

Detailed explanation-2: -The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately ending with the empire’s dissolution and the founding of the modern state of Turkey.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ottoman Empire is no longer in existence, so it does not have a new name. It was divided up after the end of World War I. What was left of the empire became the Republic of Turkey in 1923.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ottoman Empire sided with Germany in World War I (1914–18); postwar treaties dissolved the empire, and in 1922 the sultanate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who proclaimed the Republic of Turkey the following year.

Detailed explanation-5: -Finally, after fighting on the side of Germany in World War I and suffering defeat, the empire was dismantled by treaty and came to an end in 1922, when the last Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed VI, was deposed and left the capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in a British warship.

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