Muhammad Ali's Presence In Egypt

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We need more land! Let 's make our presence in Egypt so we can rule more areas of the world. Through helping the Egyptians against their enemies, protecting potential pathways of communication, and by taxing them we can expand our power over the Egyptians and their famous canal.

Muhammad Ali is currently trying to break Egypt away from Ottoman authority. He wants a modern Egyptian state, however, they have no chance of winning against an extremely powerful empire who has more janissaries than the Egyptians themselves. By making our presence in Egypt, we can help them win their war with the ottomans and bring them into the future.

After winning, the Egyptians will be using our materials. They will borrow our ideas. We can tax them and get more money through this. Even though they are going bankrupt, that 's not going to stop us from taking money to pay our own debts and financial problems. We can also take at least half of the revenue and put it to more expansion that we don 't need. …show more content…

For example, we can use the tax income to protect the Suez Canal. This canal could be the root of our success. We can force a million Egyptian workers to clean up the 100 million cubic feet of sand and dirt that is in the canal. But hey, who 's counting? We are. The canal will make Egypt modernized like they want to become and we will be able to use the canal to our advantage. It is the fastest route from our kingdom to the future. By taking over the Suez Canal, we will have access to many more lands that need proper governing. We will be able to have more control over the world. We will be the