| Display title | History of Modern Egypt |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Egypt's modern history is widely considered to begin in 1798, when Napoleon Bonaparte showed up with a large army as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. Egypt had at this point spent 350 years as a province of The Ottoman Empire, ruled in a complicated arrangement with elements dating back to The Crusades: though the Sultan in Constantinople appointed a governor, he had to share power with the Mamelukes, warrior-slaves (it's complicated) who had ruled the country after a palace revolt ousted the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin. As one might imagine, history had largely passed Egypt by, particularly after Europe's mastery of ocean travel allowed them to cut out the (Egyptian) middleman in the lucrative trade in Far Eastern spices. So when Napoleon comes in with a modern army, modern laws, and a printing press, you can rather understand the shock to Egyptian society--and indeed, the whole of the Ottoman Empire. |