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Sykes-Picot Agreement

8 min4 lessonsNovice
What you’ll learn

  1. Learn that Sykes-Picot was a secret 1916 agreement between Britain and France to divide the Ottoman Empire's Middle Eastern territories after World War I.

  2. Understand why Britain and France raced to claim Ottoman lands during the war, driven by imperial ambition and strategic control of oil, trade routes, and regional power.

  3. Discover how the agreement carved the Middle East into British and French zones, creating arbitrary borders that ignored existing ethnic, religious, and tribal communities.

  4. See how Sykes-Picot's conflicting wartime commitments and imposed borders fueled sectarian tension, state fragility, and ongoing regional conflict in the modern Middle East.

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