Egypt Was Able to Build a Modern State Based on Cotton

question 12

Multiple Choice

Egypt was able to build a modern state based on cotton exports until the market for Egyptian cotton collapsed after

• A)the British switched their preference to Indian cotton.
• B)King Jaja instituted peasant economies based on hand weaving that undercut Ali's labor forces.
• C)the American cotton market resumed after the Civil War.
• D)new work on irrigation canals caused a decrease in flooding of the Nile, and cotton crops failed for five years successively.
• E)France occupied Egypt and prevented it from exporting cotton to Britain.

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