Significant decline in Ottoman trade happened when
a. Anatolia produced few exports.
b. The Ottoman empire overspent on the Suez Canal project.
c. Islamic clerics refused to legalize coffee and alcohol trade.
d. British opium trade superseded Turkish opium and hashish.
e. they signed a trade monopoly on certain products with Russia.
ANSWER:
a
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