NMC378H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fertile Crescent, Special Relationship, Iraq Petroleum Company
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Prepare the mandate territories for self governance. British and france planned to lock the fertile crescent in long term dependence on mandatory powers. Iraqi state building during the first decade of hashemite rule. There were the ex ottoman military officers or supported faysal in. The iraqis modest background of army officers. Second group linked to the regime the aristocratic families. Tribal sheikhs of the arabic speaking rural areas. Consolidated them as their personal agricultural property. Hashemite years marked by growth in agriculture cultivators also became serfs did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the right to (cid:373)o(cid:448)e process that turned the tribal countryside to peasant and chief relation. Hashemite: sunni arabs alienation among majority of iraqis shia and. French mandates of syria and lebanon: punctuated by periodic political flashes, french investments in syria and lebanon, it"s true that fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e did e(cid:374)joy a historical connection to the.