The Sykes–Picot map
Two diplomats divided the Ottoman Middle East in secret, in crayon, and signed the sheet. A map can be an instrument rather than a description: this one assigned millions of people to spheres of influence they were never told about.
Preview from The signed map, Wikimedia Commons, public domain, shown from their site.
By
Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot · 1916
Where
History & power · Colonial borders
Form
Static image · to inform
Visual
Space, Colour
Original