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read the sentences from the first paragraph of the section "meeting in secret":

they made a secret treaty and russia agreed to it. it was known as the sykes-picot agreement. it drew up borders in the middle east. arab lands would be controlled by great britain and france.

what does the author mean by saying the agreement "drew up" borders for land in the middle east?

group of answer choices

it painted pictures of countries.

it created new borders.

it made countries smaller.

it got rid of all borders.

When the author writes that the Sykes-Picot Agreement "drew up" borders in the Middle East, they mean that it created new borders between the Middle Eastern lands which would be under French rule, and those which would be under British rule.

The idea was that in the context of the First World War, the Triple Entente (France, Great Britain and the Russian Empire) was more likely to win against the Ottoman Empire if its three members each had control over some regions in the Middle East. The secret agreement, signed in 1916, allocated the land as follows:

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place.