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Please explain why the Ottoman Empire lost power and prestige.

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The Ottoman Empire lost power and prestige due to heavy inflation, having an economy that was too agrarian, loss of cohesion due to the many diverse cultures within it, the undereducation of the population, being weakened by other countries, and picking the wrong side of WWI.

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