were deposed in 1908. Sorry this didn't really turn out as I wanted, but you'll get somewhat of a picture. Understand the Elite's/the aristocracy policy in most of ME was to Westernize ME. Everything should be governed like France. And also the military is an important bit. You can't do guerille warfare to defend an empire. And you need to industrialize to have a developed army, and they lacked money to do this. They borrowed money, but corruption took it's part, and after that the economy kept leaking. Hopefully it helped somewhat. I don't really know the situation on the ground religiously in different parts.