What was the "Eastern Question" and how did it bring about European and Russian intervention in Ottoman affairs?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
The "Eastern Question" was the unspoken issue of whether or not the weakening Ottoman Empire ("sick man of Europe") should continue to exist, and if not, what was to happen to its territories and people. In the wake of the Congress of Vienna, the diplomatic approach to politics following the Napoleonic wars, Russia had been included in the European political spectrum. However, with the initiation of the Crimean War, ostensibly over a minute point of religious dispute (Russia objected to the sultan naming France as the protector of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem), Britain and France sided against Russia and created hostile relations between the former allies. Ultimately, this issue led to the rest of Europe weighing in on the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire (long before its official demise), and in fact laid the groundwork for World War I.
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