The only true option from the list would be that "<span>In time a fifth group was added to the caste system--the untouchables," since this was a later development and not an initial part of the system. </span>
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were times of crisis for Russia. Not only did technology and industry continue to develop more rapidly in the West, but also new, dynamic, competitive great powers appeared on the world scene: Otto von Bismarck united Germany in the 1860s, the post-Civil War United States grew in size and strength, and a modernized Japan emerged from the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Although Russia was an expanding regional giant in Central Asia, bordering the Ottoman, Persian, British Indian, and Chinese empires, it could not generate enough capital to support rapid industrial development or to compete with advanced countries on a commercial basis. Russia's fundamental dilemma was that accelerated domestic development risked upheaval at home, but slower progress risked full economic dependency on the faster-advancing countries to the east and west. In fact, political ferment, particularly among the intelligentsia, accompanied the transformation of Russia's economic and social structure, but so did impressive developments in literature, music, the fine arts, and the natural sciences.
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Answer: Mesopotamia and Palestine
The Ottoman Empire was partitioned after WWI through several agreements made by the Allied Powers, notably the Sikes-Picot Agreement. The partition led to the creation of several new states and of the modern Arab World.
The League of Nations granted French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, and British Mandate for Mesopotamia (later Iraq) and Palestine (which was later divided into Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan).Other territories that were created were the Kingdom of Hejaz, the Sultanate of Nejd and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
