Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army

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• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.88)
• By 1820 Mehmed Ali’s rule had brought unprecedented poverty and misery to Egyptian peasants (similarity 0.87)
• Mehmed Ali used the Wahhabi war to dispose of his troublesome Albanian troops (similarity 0.87)
• Muhammad Ali deployed diverse officers to classify the Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Mehmed Ali saluted crowds, unlike his predecessors who demanded prostration (similarity 0.87)
• Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.87)
• Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.86)
• The Sudan invasion primarily aimed to capture men for the army (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali preferred Sultan Selim’s army model over Napoleon’s for organizing his forces (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized fake Sudanese voices instead of seeking real Sudanese allies (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.84)