Question

What did the British and French mandates in the Middle East have in common?

Answer 1

Answer:

Both mandates, do not respect the ethnic and historical differences of the people who lived in that territory and formalized borders that were not recognized by the inhabitants

Explanation:

• The French Mandate of Syria (called the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon until 1922), was a mandate of the League of Nations on the northern part of Syria and on Lebanon, the two territories were previously part of the Ottoman Empire. The mandate was created after the First World War and through the partition of the Ottoman Empire, determined by the victorious powers, being the most benefited France and the United Kingdom. During the two years that followed the end of the war in 1918 and according to the terms agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement signed by the British and French, it was the British who controlled the vast majority of Ottoman Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and part from Ottoman Syria (Palestine and Transjordan), while the French controlled the rest of Syria, Lebanon, Alexandreta and other parts of southeastern Turkey. In the early part of the 1920s, the League of Nations formalized the control imposed by the British and the French over these territories by a system of mandates and the Mandate of the League of Nations of Syria was assigned to France on September 29. 1923, which included the territories that today constitute the current states of Syria and Lebanon. The administration of the region under French control was carried through several governments and different territories, including the Federation of Syria (1922-24), the State of Syria (1924-30) and the Republic of Syria (1930-1958) , as well as the smaller states of Greater Lebanon, the Territory of the Alawites and the State of Yébel Druz. The French mandate of Syria lasted until 1943, when two countries emerged, the current Syria and Lebanon and also the Hatay Province, which had joined Turkey in 1939. French troops withdrew from Syria in 1946.
• The British Mandate of Palestine was a territorial administration entrusted by the League of Nations to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Middle East, following the First World War and as part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, with the status of low territory mandate. The territory on which it was established corresponded to the southern region of the Mediterranean Levante, a region that the Ottoman Empire lost as a result of its defeat in the war. Although the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland administered these territories de facto from 1917, the Mandate entered into force in June of 1922 and expired in May of 1948. At first it included the present territories of Jordan, Israel and the present Palestine , although from September of 1922 the United Kingdom separated the Eastern part of the same, creating the Emirate of Transjordania.

Answer 2

They ignored the realities of the region when they set their artificial boundaries and they did not have a consistent governance model