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Legacies of Empire

Legacies of Empire

1) Bengal borderlands

            • Little immediate impact

            • Complicated traditional social and economic patterns

            • Also created new opportunities and new forms of work

2) Kuwait-Iraq

• 1922: Percy Cox draws Saudi boundaries

• 1923: Cox defines Kuwait-Iraq boundary (vaguely)

            • Tension over territory with potential for oil

3) Sudan

            • North-South civil war: 1.5 million dead

            • Darfur genocide: 200,000 dead

            • African Union peacekeeping force’s limited success in Darfur

Archibald MacLeish, “You, Andrew Marvell” (published 1926)