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Others fell off ladders, slipped on rocks, inhaled silica dust, or suffered from mercury, lead or arsenic poisoning. Many got sick from drinking dirty water and living too close together. Miners faced immediate dangers, as well as health problems that developed over time
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The correct answer is C: Creating allies in newly formed nations
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As the nationalist forces gradually broke up the Ottoman Empire, new independent nations were created. Newly formed nations close the capital, such as Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Armenia etc were predominantly Christian and had already received a lot of support from Western European powers.
They immediately became allies to regional powers of Britain and France.
Apart from these, many far flung holdings of the Ottomans including Libya, Saudi Arabia etc were Muslims but became close allies to the Europeans, in an effort to curtail the influence of the Turks.
