<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishMisri ilikua ni nchi ya nyuma, hata zaidi wakati Milki ya Ottoman ilipokuwa ikizorota katika karne ya 18, na mfululizo wa matatizo ambayo Mamluks wa eneo hilo hawakuweza kudhibiti.  <response>: Egypt became a backwater, even more so as the Ottoman Empire went into chronic terminal decline in the 18th century, with a series of crises that local mamelukes were unable to control. 