How did a growing sense of nationalism contribute to the decline of the Ottoman Empire? Ethnic rivalry caused military conflicts throughout the empire.
Some ethnic groups successfully declared their independence.
Ethnic groups wanted to remain part of the empire.
Ethnic rivalry weakened the resolve of the empire’s nationalism.

Some ethnic groups successfully declared their independence

Explanation:

In the 19th century prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Greeks rebelled from the empire and were successfuly able to establish an independent state.

(202 bc - 220 ad) dynasty started by lui bang; a great and long-lasting rule, it discarded the harsh policies of the qin dynasty and adopted confucian principles; han rulers chose officials who passed the civil service exams rather than birth; it was a time of prosperity

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: