KT 5: The Nile Valley 1882-98

What institution was introduced to bail out the Khedives?

In what way did occupying Egypt benefit Britain's financial interests?

What was the Mahdi of Sudan?

How much was spent on draining the Nile's flood plains and agricultural improvements?

When was Gordon sent back to the Sudan to lead the evacuation?

When was Arab nationalism against the Ottoman Empire at its peak?

What were Gordon's orders from 1884-85?

Who was British consul general in Egypt from 1882?

How much of this was spent on stabilising debt?

In what way did occupying Egypt benefit British trade?

Where was there an intersection of British and French interests in the Sudan?

What did General Kitchener do to avoid conflict with the French in 1898 at Fashoda?

What was a strategic benefit of occupying Egypt?

When did the British dispatch Sir William Hicks to deal with the mahdist threat?

Who was appointed Governor of Equatorial Provinces?

What did the intervention in Egypt instigate?

What did PM Gladstone do in response?

How did he do this?

Why was there less investment in education?

When did Khedive Hilami conspire against the British?

On how many separate occasions did the British promise to leave Egypt during occupation?

What did the French do from 1882 that prompted Britain to occupy Egypt?

When did the bombardment of Alexandria occur?

Due to the shrinking of the Ottoman Empire, where did Egypt occupy?

What were the details of this Convention?

What happened to nationalism in Egypt?

When did the British decide to conquer the Sudan?

What happened in the Khartoum incident?

Why were Britain eager to modernise the Sudan?

What did Gordon do instead?

When were tuition fees raised in primary schools?

By what year had the Egyptian government returned to solvency?

What was this due to?

Who formed the Egyptian Nationalist Party in 1879?

What did Gordon do which destabilised the economy in the Sudan and angered Sudanese elites?

When did the Khedive of Egypt go bankrupt?

When was Khartoum besieged by the mahdists?

Name an outcome of the Battle of Omdurman.

Did peasants (kharaj land) or wealthy landowners (ushr land) pay higher tax?

Why was Britain willing to sacrifice the Sudan?

Why did Disraeli want to intervene in Egyptian affairs?

When was the Battle of Omdurman?

Britain and which other power assumed dual control as a result in 1878?

When was the London Convention issued to Baring?

What did Britain fear as a result of the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

What happened to Hicks' campaign?