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Sykes Picot Agreement Explained

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  1. Learn how two British and French diplomats secretly drew lines across the Middle East in 1916, dividing Ottoman territories without consulting the people living there—and why this matters today.

  2. Explore how the Sykes-Picot line between Syria and Lebanon was drawn, how it split communities and resources, and why Syrian refugees and political instability remain connected to this century-old border today.

  3. Understand how Sykes-Picot created Iraq by combining three Ottoman provinces with different ethnic and religious groups, leading to internal conflict that shapes Middle Eastern politics and current news headlines.

  4. See how Sykes-Picot set the stage for the Palestine Mandate and later Israeli-Palestinian disputes, and connect this colonial legacy to ongoing conflicts reported in today's news cycle.

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What you'll learn

  1. What Was Sykes-Picot?. World War I was gutting the Ottoman Empire—the Turkish state that had ruled the Middle East for centuries. Britain and France smelled opportunity. They wanted to carve up Ottoman…
  2. The Levant Border: Syria and Lebanon. In 1916, two diplomats—Mark Sykes for Britain and François Picot for France—sat down to divide the Ottoman Empire's Arab territories without asking the people who lived there. The…
  3. Mesopotamia Divided: The Iraq Question. Most people think Iraq has always been a single nation with a shared identity. That's wrong. Iraq is a border drawn on a map by two British and French diplomats in 1916 who had…
  4. Palestine, Israel, and Unfinished Lines. Most people think the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a peace treaty. It wasn't. In 1916, two British diplomats and a French one secretly carved up the Ottoman Empire—the dying empire…

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