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Africa in the Age of Imperialism - Saskatoon Public Schools

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The Suez Canal<br />

• Europeans had relatively little <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong><br />

Egypt until 1859, when <strong>the</strong> French began<br />

build<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Suez Canal.<br />

• Ali had opposed construction <strong>of</strong> a canal to<br />

l<strong>in</strong>k <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean Sea and <strong>the</strong> Red Sea.<br />

• He feared that such a canal would <strong>in</strong>crease<br />

European <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> Egypt because it would<br />

cut thousands <strong>of</strong> miles <strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> trip from<br />

Europe to Asia. However, his successors<br />

approved <strong>the</strong> project.

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