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The Eastern Question And The Crimean War
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Posted 18 February 2008 - 10:21 AM
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How old is your History teacher? This is the kind of question we used to get when I was doing A level.
The question is being clever-dick. It is playing on the word 'Question' in 'Eastern Question'.
What it means is: 'To what extent did the Crimean War solve the Eastern Question' - bring it to an end/ stop it.
To answer it, you will need to say what the Eastern Question was - what the different elements of the 'Eastern Question' were - and then consider to what extent the Crimean War eradicated those different problems.
Without doing your answer for you, the Eastern Question involved, for instance, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the growth of nationalism and revolt in the Balkan peninsula, and the attempt of Russia to take advantage of that to establish a presence in the eastern Mediterranean. I think you could argue quite truthfully that the Crimean War did nothing to even slow down the former two, and actually only postponed the latter for a few years.
On the different aspects of the Eastern Question:
http://www.thecorner...pe/east-qtn.htm
http://www.thecorner...pe/others.htm#4
http://www.lib.msu.e...lkan/lect10.htm
http://en.wikipedia....astern_Question
On the effectiveness of the Crimean War:
http://www.victorian...ea/comment.html
http://www.enotes.com/
http://books.google.com/books?id=l52i-Xlkk...LIo01c#PPA92,M1
Useful quoteshere: http://www.brill.nl/...arInterview.pdf
Dont forget, when you do a 'to what extent' question, that you need to address both points for the proposal, and points against the proposal, and - most importantly - finish with a conclusion which weighs the two sides.
As for the question in brackets. I find it difficult to see how it relates to the first question at all - I can only think that it is a prompt to try to get you to think about what I have said earlier - what were the different aspects of/ who were the different players in the Eastern Question?
How old is your History teacher? This is the kind of question we used to get when I was doing A level.
The question is being clever-dick. It is playing on the word 'Question' in 'Eastern Question'.
What it means is: 'To what extent did the Crimean War solve the Eastern Question' - bring it to an end/ stop it.
To answer it, you will need to say what the Eastern Question was - what the different elements of the 'Eastern Question' were - and then consider to what extent the Crimean War eradicated those different problems.
Without doing your answer for you, the Eastern Question involved, for instance, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the growth of nationalism and revolt in the Balkan peninsula, and the attempt of Russia to take advantage of that to establish a presence in the eastern Mediterranean. I think you could argue quite truthfully that the Crimean War did nothing to even slow down the former two, and actually only postponed the latter for a few years.
On the different aspects of the Eastern Question:
http://www.thecorner...pe/east-qtn.htm
http://www.thecorner...pe/others.htm#4
http://www.lib.msu.e...lkan/lect10.htm
http://en.wikipedia....astern_Question
On the effectiveness of the Crimean War:
http://www.victorian...ea/comment.html
http://www.enotes.com/
http://books.google.com/books?id=l52i-Xlkk...LIo01c#PPA92,M1
Useful quoteshere: http://www.brill.nl/...arInterview.pdf
Dont forget, when you do a 'to what extent' question, that you need to address both points for the proposal, and points against the proposal, and - most importantly - finish with a conclusion which weighs the two sides.
As for the question in brackets. I find it difficult to see how it relates to the first question at all - I can only think that it is a prompt to try to get you to think about what I have said earlier - what were the different aspects of/ who were the different players in the Eastern Question?
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