Reading The Near East by William Yale, Chapter V

CHAPTER V (reading the rest of the chapter)

-Mohammed Ali and the Great Powers

Trouble in the Levant - Syria and Lebanon

-The people of the Levant

-Violence in Lebanon

-French and British rivalry in the Levant

The Crimean War

-Underlying causes

-Nicholas' proposals to Britain

-Anglo-French accord

-Crimean War- Opposing views

-Treaty of Paris 1856

-Some diverse results of the Crimean War

-Renewed violence in Lebanon