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Why did the Ottoman Empire not engage in industrialization until many years after the Industrial Revolution had begun in Western Europe?

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The main reason was that the Ottoman empire was in very slow decline during these years; when other major European powers were starting to industrialize themselves. Because the Ottoman Empire couldn't keep up ,they suffered the consequences in the form of a later period of industrialization. 
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