The essay should be 500+ words, single-spaced in a 12-point font, and conform to MLA or APA styles, including parenthetical citations and footnoted references.
Please answer only one of the following prompts:
1. Describe the various geo-strategic, military, and religious policies used by the European Great Powers (Austria, Russia, France, Great Britain, and Italy) to annex key Turkish provinces and ultimately partition and destroy the declining Ottoman-Turkish Empire (1700s-1919).
2. Describe the Ottoman-Turkish Empire's repression policies against secessionist minorities (GreekBalkan Christians, Armenian Christians, and Assyrian Christians) and non-Turkish subject Muslim populations (Arabs and Kurds) in the 1820s-1918, including the Armenian Genocide.