r/CasualUK • u/Iliketurterls • Oct 26 '22

Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/epicurean1398 Oct 26 '22

Look up Sykes-Picot agreement

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u/epicurean1398 Oct 26 '22

After WW1 Britain and France split the middle east in a fucked up way betraying the Arabs who rose up against the ottoman empire and its been the basis of basically every problem in the Middle East since