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World War I
The formation of the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance partly caused what?
1918
By what year were three empires gone?
1916
What year was Arnold J toynbee becoming metaphysical about the Near East?
Arnold J. Toynbee
Who was the Hegelesque historian of civilization?
Geography alone was not a sufficient explanation of the terms
Arnold J Toynbee believed what?
new nations
What was able to rise from the death of the Near East?
the Republic of Turkey
What notable nation was able to rise from the ashes of the Near East?
with the west
How did the Republic of Turkey align themselves?
Mustafa Kemal
Who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey?
Mustafa Kemal
Who was a former Ottoman high-ranking officer?
the 19th century
When was the term middle east common as a noun and adjective?
archaeology
The middle east was not common in diplomacy and what other context?
Ptolemy's "India Beyond the Ganges."
Where did the "Far East" derive from?
the eastern border of Iraq
Where did the Ottoman Empire end?
because Old Persian cuneiform had been found there
Why did archaeologists count Iran as "The Near East"?
in British and American diplomatic circles
Where did the use of the term Middle East as a region of international affairs begin?
Persia
What was Iran known as to the west?
1900
When did Thomas Edward Gordon publish "The Problem of the Middle East"?
The Problem of the Middle East
What article did Thomas Edward Gordon publish?
Thomas Edward Gordon
The problem of the Middle East was published by who?
resumption of work on a railway
What threat caused Gordon to publish his article?
Gordon
Who was a diplomat and military officer?
Gordon
Who had not used the term middle east previously in publications?
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Who was a member of American diplomatic and military circles?
the naval vulnerability of the trade routes
What was Alfred Thayer Mahan concerned about?
1902
When did Alfred Thayer Mahan comment on the trade routes?
the sailor
Who did not connect with the soldier?
the term Middle East
What did Mahan believe he was innovating?
the term Middle East
What had already been there to be seen?
the period following World War I
The Near East and the Middle East coexisted until what period?
Bertram Lenox Simpson
Who was the colonial officer killed in China?
Bertram Lenox Simpson
Who wrote the 1910 book 'The Conflict of Color'?
Weale
What was Simpson's pen-name?
color and colonial subjection
What is the basis of Simpson's unity?
the 1920s
The great whites were appearing as late as what time?
James Henry Breasted
In whose works were the great whites appearing?
A red wavelength
What was mainly of interest in America?
the brown men
These regions were occupied by who?
the Far East
Where where the yellow?
Africa
Where were the black?
1963
When did Kenya become independent?
Kenya became independent
The color issue was not settled until when?
the slavers
The Ottomans were portrayed as what?
Charles George Gordon
Who is known as the saint of all British colonial officers?
assignments living among the poor and donating his salary
What did Charles George Gordon spend his time between?
as a junior officer in the Crimean War
When did he win Ottoman confidence?
a high official in the Ottoman Empire
What did he become in his later career?
a few years before World War I
When did the term "Near and Middle East" hold stage?
The term "Near and Middle East,"
What proved to be less acceptable to a colonial point of view?
1916
When did Captain T.C. Fowle write of a trip he had taken from Karachi to Syria?
(troops of British India
Who were the 40th Pathans?
"the Middle East.
In the book Fowle wrote, what is the entire region considered?
"Middle East"
What prevailed with the disgrace of "Near East"?
Near East
What continues in some circles at the discretion of the defining agency or academic department?
Near East
What term was disgraced in diplomatic and military circles?
sentiment of unity
What sentiment persists even though racial and colonial definitions of the Middle East are no longer ideologically sound?
racial and colonial definitions
What definitions of the Middle East are no longer ideologically sound?
no longer considered ideologically sound
What are racial and colonial definitions of the Middle East considered?
the 20th century
When were terms such as "Near East", "Far East", and "Middle East" relegated to the experts?
the new field of political science
Where did the new wave of diplomats often come from?
the shadow of international relations
Where did archaeology on the international scene fall into?
independent republics
What replaced the fallen empires of the 19th century?
The United States
What is the chief remaining nation to assign official responsibilities to a region called the Near East?
the Near Eastern regional system
What has the state department been most influential in promulgating?
The countries of the former empires of the 19th century
Who has abandoned the term Near East?
the United States Department of State
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is a division of what?
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
What is perhaps the most influential agency to still use the term Near East?
statecraft
Secretary Clinton also calls the implementation of official diplomacy of the United States what?
the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA)
Who works closely with the definition of the Near East?
an educational institution of the United States Department of Defense
What is NESA?
It teaches courses and holds seminars and workshops
What does NESA Teach?
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
What is WINEP?
the Middle East
What is WINEPS target countries as?
under "North Africa."
How does WINEP bundle the countries of Northwest Africa?
The Library of Congress
What does LoC stand for?
an institution established by Congress to provide a research library for the government
What is the Library of Congress?
the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library
The Library of Congress is under whose supervision?
The United Nations
Who formulates multiple regional divisions as is convenient for its various operations?
UNICEF
Who recognizes the "Middle East and North Africa" region?
the countries included elsewhere in the Middle East
The United Nations Statistics Division defines Western Asia to contain what?
the Near East
The Food and Agriculture Organization describes its entire theater of operations as what?
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
What is a quasi-independent agency of the United States Government?
multiple leadership
The CIA appears to have what?
the president
Who appoints the director of the CIA?
Congress
Who oversees the operations of the CIA?
The World Factbook
The Near East of the NESA is the same as the Middle East define in what?
Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis
What does NESA stand for?
(NESA)
Whose duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries?"
U.S. Agency for International Development
What does USAID stand for?
USAID
What is the independant agency under the Department of State for the purpose of determining and distributing foreign aid called?
the term Near East
What term does USAID not use?
a Middle East and North Africa region
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of United Kingdom recognizes what?
Near East
What region does the Foreign and Commonwealth office of United Kingdom not recognize?
Their original Middle East
What consumed the Near East as far as the Red Sea?
"bilateral relationships"
What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Greece conduct?
Near East
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey does not use what term?
Republic of Turkey
The Middle East, the Balkans and others are included in what republic?
The Ancient Near East
What is a term of the 20th centrury intended to stabilize the geographical application of Near East to ancient history?
the Ancient Near East
The ancient nations, people and languages of the enhanced Fertile Crescent will always refer to what?
Fertile Crescent
What is the sweep of land from the Nile Valley through Anatolia called?