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• Pre oil state had to be supported by primary agricultural zone Ottoman almost all revenue from land tax, less from trade. Needed Iraq or Egypt for last hegemony.

• Didn't need steppes, but steppes always plaguing. Could not ignore nor conquer their neighbours partial solutions. Depending on b of p war, hostility or client states

• Competition between states for agricultural control of key zones, theme of relations between settled people of near east and nomads of desert and steppe. Important context for fortunes of C state.

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