How did Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman military leader of Egypt, finance the modernization of Egypt?
a. He seized the Suez Canal.
b. He taxed all foreign goods that sailed in and out of the Red Sea.
c. He encouraged the production of cotton.
d. He made a military alliance with Great Britain.
e. He increased taxes on the peasant class.
c
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