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The British were far nicer than the French, the British helped educate the population in the last century and were welcomed in many areas in Arabia. Wasnt the same for the French in Algeria and elsewhere.
''Persians'' did not anything you said in the video. They did not fight the Russians in the Caucasus, they did not interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan, they did not sign an agreement with the British. Those who guided the country's political and military administration were the Qizilbash Turks, who despised the ''Persians'' and spoke same language with their Ottoman cousins in Anatolia.
Imo the North African and Middle Eastern Muslim polities or states during this times should have implemented progressive taxation like a land value tax (to replace some taxes), reformed their economies into open markets and engaged more in foreign free trade to repay their huge debts.
These long form videos are really great Jabzy. I’ve been a regular viewer of yours since you started and I have to say that of all the history channels on RU-vid, you are one of the few that has gone uphill rather than downhill. Thanks you very much.
Regarding Algeria you forgot to mention an important resistance in the east which is Ahmad bey resistance of Constantine. He was bey in the regency of Algiers and is regarded as a hero in a comparable dimension as emir abalkadir, and regarding abdalkadir he received a pair of pistols from American president Abraham Lincoln for saving Christians in the Damascus massacre.
‘Liberated’ WHAT? Anybody who supports what among others the Greeks did during there war of independence (for example in Navarino Crete and Tripolitsa) the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 and the Balkan wars isn’t normal. Many Greek cities were built by Ottoman Pasha’s for example the city Komotini was commissioned by Ottoman Gazi Evrenos Bey.
@@YoussefDaanBenAmor? The Ottomans were not exactly nice to the people the conquered and enslaved either. Like the whole of history is pretty gruesome all over the world. Modern morals and humanistic values are very new across the world.
@@meaghanorlinski8464 Firstly a little more on the content. It is indeed an interesting thought if Napoleon commanded his forces through the Balkans and not Egypt, especially since he would have been at war with the Ottomans either way. But he was out for adventure and the Balkans were i think a little too close to home for him. Secondly whilst the Ottomans didn’t build there Empire based on complete tolerance lots of different cultures did flourish including in the Balkans.
@@YoussefDaanBenAmor"Many Greek cities were built by ottoman..." What are you talking about? Most Cities in Greece and Anarolia were built by Greeks. The Turcoman raids destroyed most of them and later they renamed them. Nice revisionism but you must try harder.
@@YoussefDaanBenAmorAs for Komotini and who builded it it is exactly what I described above. There was already a Greek city from the antiquity. The Asiatic invaders were not city builders. On the contrary...
The title of the video and miniature is quite misleading. In fact, when watching your detailed videos, it appears clear to me that Europeans were not ready to colonize or exploit everything and everyone, but rather another (albeit powerful) agent, like the minorities and different dynasties that you present, in a region that was struggling to keep pace with a modernizing world. Great content
At 16:11 the Husainid dynasty is mentioned, they actually ruled Tunisia till after the country gained independence from France in 1956. It was only when the weak king Lamine Bey was shoved aside by the powerful incoming Bourguiba in 1957 that the monarchy was abolished.
Your videos are always so inspiring. In the west we never learn the complex history of what is one of the worlds oldest populated area of the world. I think this is why wars in the area can then be so quickly manipulated to various propaganda campaigns. Western minds are a blank slate to the area's history, and quickly absorb whatever is suggested to them. Everything is over simplified and given a western framework, everything becomes a "CIA Plot" because people can't fathom cultures and power structures much older then the USA itself have its own agenda and political will. There is no respect for the peoples of the area, everyone is just a flat NPC waiting to be exploited by European powers. Or an mid-evil evil force of baddies. There is no possibility of strategy, partnership, commercial expansion, self-interest, national pride, depth, real history.
I wouldn't call the actual Arabian Peninsula that, I assume you mean the MENA region in general. You also just single out "the West" when other places of the world also don't know. The West also isn't just the USA either
The real substantive question to ask is if the Ottomans committed genocide on Balkan Christians during their centuries-long conquest and domination of the region.
I reckon apart from The Holy Land and Old Testament sites rediscovered in this era as verification of scripture, mostly the European interest was in trade & communication routes. Coaling stations & telegraph posts were a lot less glamorous, perhaps, but they ran trade before diesel oil from the region became important to shipping & petroleum fuels drove land & air transport including the military. The Ottoman Empire in Arabia used railroads for heavy lifting & these were targeted by the rebel forces.
I commend you for braving the topic. I knew the moment I saw the title there would be a wave of knee-jerk red herring comments. I think an interesting video idea for the future might be the Zemene Mesafint period of Ethiopia.
The Muslim countries should have used foreign free trade cash, reformed their economic models into being open market economies and Land value taxation imo to pay their debts smh
ı am circissian and my ancestors fled from circissian genocide to the Ottoman empire. as we cacucusian muslims we enlisted for ıslamic caliphs army and fight against Russia and armenians.
Europe was way too kind to them. Would an Arabic/African/Turkish Empire stop colonization like the British and French Empires did? Never. What happened after 1945 is historically unheard of. Neither the French nor the British profit from releasing them.
@JabzyJoe Just started watching but in regards to the Circassians what are you talking about? Their genocide by the Russians or their forced conversion and usage as the preferred sex slaves (many are fair with blue eyes and were easily accessible) throughout the Muslim world until the 19th century?
@@euboean3079 so you wouldn't be opposed to Nigerians genociding the Spanish cos they owned slaves until recently? This level of whataboutism is fiercely boring.
@@JabzyJoe The Haitians exterminated the entire white population of Haiti over slavery. And not just kill but rape and torture everyone, women and children included. This was made permissible by their national heroe who only spared some Polish mercenaries for being the "white n*ggers" of Europe. I don't recall the French denying their wrongs and highlighting this brutality against Haiti. They even allowed Haitian ambassadors in Paris following the French revolution. You can talk about Whatsboutism but from my perspective as a Balkanian, the Muslim world got off very lightly. The Circassians aren't a representation of Islam, and when the Russians attempted the same in nowaday Trabzon against the Turks, the Pontic Greek community protected them. The Turks rewarded them two decades later with a brutal genocide, something they still deny. They got off very lightly.
@@JabzyJoeI think you misunderstood. He means if you are refering a) to the russian massacre against the Circassians or b) to the forced conversion and enslavement they suffered apon being conquered by the ottomans
Colonialism brought several benefits and simply a product of its times. Whilst it played it's parts Britain was the reason why slavery worldwide came to an end in the developed world are there Navy is what put it ends to the remnants of trade. Note how all the former colonies that established capital governments are burgeoning and it's unfortunate many work collapsed by the oppressive virus that is socialism
@@ColasTeamThey cleary didnt. If they did the Middle East would be Majority Oriental Christian agan you Racist Liar. You probably also never heard of the Genocide against Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in Anatolia.
Are the Europeans guilty of a muslim genocide? Well first: that question plays EXTREMELY fast and loose with the word "genocide". And secondly, why are we even asking such a silly question when every border with Islam has been bloody?
@@hazemmansour6053 MUSLIMS are still fighting among themselves even now and with other kafir nations. They are constantly under war. Europe has moved away from war after World War II.
26:44 western sahara was under Spanish-moroccan(heir of the king🇲🇦) control,and the fact that the speratist are just mercenaries from sub-saharien africa backed by algeria(so they can have a coast in the Atlantic🌊) and doesn't have a capital and also the sahrawis population in western/moroccan sahara doesn't want to seperate,in conclusion western sahara just a conflict made up by colonization and backed by a party🇩🇿 for a target🌊
More click bait crap. "colonialism" has been going on since the beginning of time. We've always tried to take our neighbors grain, women, land, whatever. And before then we fought each other over the best cave, the best tree, the best fire. It's not even logical to keep asking the boring Colonial question. It's only logical to talk about the facts, which this channel blatantly fails to do.
@@JabzyJoeClearly not, one could sum up the issues in the middle east as tribalism and feudalism coming up against modern advancement but that's a grosse oversimplification. As you remind us in your videos the Ottomans only had nominal control over the vast quantities of their empire not effective, many local leaders toppling each other constantly was one of the major issues to stability. This was regardless of European great powers politicking which did also happen ala Egypt, Algeria and the numerous gunboat diplomacy as examples.
