New technology made WWI significantly different from earlier wars since there were new and more powerful weapons, allowing them to kill more people and damage a country more. Other previous wars used insufficient guns where you had to get very close up and could not damage you a lot. Rifles and cannons were revolutionary to this war since without them they most likely would not have been nearly as many deaths—on both sides—than if the soldiers were still using early futile weapons.

2. The decline of the Ottoman Empire began in the mid-18th century when Enlightenment ideas were educated to people and enslaved people or hard laborers began to think about freedom. Once this small step took place, rebellions began to take place and people broke