The Road to 9-11

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The Road to 9-11
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America Asks Why?
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• Lecture 1 Deep Background

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Geography- A Crossroads
Asia
Europe
Africa
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The Abrahamic Religions

• Aka the Great Monotheistic Religions
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• To Muslims, Islam is Gods last, best version of
  the truth ? an updated version of Judaism and
  Christianity
• There is a great deal of overlapping of the
  faiths
• For example, in Islam, Jesus is a great prophet,
  but not the son of God
• All three trace themselves back to the biblical
  character Abraham

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The Three Were Constantly in Contact and
Frequently at Odds
Crusades
Expulsion of Muslims from Spain
Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople
Etc.
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For a Long Period of History, Muslim Middle
Eastern Empires Were the Most Advanced on the
Planet

• The empires of Persia and the Abbasid Dynasty
  centered on Baghdad were the intellectual and
  commercial centers of the world in year 1000,
  before the Mongolians crushed them
• The later Muslim Ottoman Empire frequently
  invaded Europe
• In the century after Columbus discovered America,
  more books were written in Europe about the
  Ottoman menace to the East than about the New
  World

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The Rise of the (Christian) West

• In the 1400s, the European Christians had an
  intellectual and cultural Renaissance called the
  Renaissance
• This led to science and technology, and with
  them
• POWER
• The Muslim Empires slowly lost ground

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In World War I, the Muslims Even Lost Their
Independence

• The Ottoman joined the wrong (German) side in WWI
  
• Central Powers
• When the Central Powers Lost, Britain and France
  gobbled up the Middle East
• Oil was just starting to be a big deal at this
  point
• Internal combustion engine

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Uh, oh!
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End of Day 1
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Hansen Name _________________________U.S.
History Period _________ The Road To
9-11 (Day 1)

• America Asks ______
• Middle Eastern Geography ______________________
  ____________________________________________
• The Abrahamic Religions
• Aka the Great Monotheistic Religions
• ____________________
• ____________________
• ___________________
• To Muslims, Islam is ______________________
  ______________________ ? an updated version of
  _______________________________
• There is a great deal of overlapping of the
  faiths
• For example, in Islam, Jesus is ________
  __________________________________
• All three trace themselves back to ______
  __________________________________
• The Three Were Constantly in Contact and ________
  __________________________________________
• For a Long Period of History, Muslim Middle
  Eastern Empires Were _____________________________
  ____
• The empires of Persia and the Abbasid Dynasty
  centered ______________________ were the
  intellectual and commercial centers of the world
  in year 1000, ____________________________________
  ___

• The Rise of the (Christian) West
• In the 1400s, the European Christians had an
  intellectual and cultural Renaissance called ___
  ____________________________________
• This led to science and technology, and with
  them
• ______________
• The Muslim Empires slowly _______________
• In World War I, the Muslims even lost
  ______________ ___________________________________
  _
• The Ottoman joined the wrong (German) side in WWI
  
• ______________________
• When the Central Powers Lost, Britain and France
  ________________________________
• ______________________________________
• Internal combustion engine

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USS Cole
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• Al-Qaeda formed in Afghanistan in the late 1980s
• Bin Laden and other generals maintain training
  camps in Afghanistan
• The United States offered support to Bin Laden to
  they could help us defeat the Russians in the
  Cold War
• Sounds like a bribe to meDamn Americans never
  learn. It has to be done under the table

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