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 A AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
THE BRITISH MARITIME SYSTEM

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What were the advantages of maritime treaty
1820 on the trucial states?who benfited and

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why? What advantages did it bring
The Treaty was aimed at pacifying the Gulf States of that time.
It was intended to ban the piracy in the waters of the Persian
Gulf, prohibit slavery, cut off the slavery trade, and set the
strict requirements for registering all legal ships with the naval
forces of Britain
• The Treaty was aimed at pacifying the Gulf States of that time. It
was intended to ban the piracy in the waters of the Persian
Gulf, prohibit slavery, cut off the slavery trade, and set the
strict requirements for registering all legal ships with the
naval forces of Britain.
 Synthesize how the sequences of the treaty attempted to reduce
autonomy of the trucial state and increase british influence in the region.
 • On 30 November 1971, the British left the Trucial
States bringing an end to the era of British
supremacy in the area. It is noteworthy that the
Trucial States were the first Arab territory into
which Britain extended her authority in 1820 and
the last area in which she relinquished it in
1971.

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 Why did the british accuse the
kawasim of piracy? What benefit do
you think it brought to the british
 • In 1986, Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi
wrote The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf, in
which he argued that the British had identified
the Qawasim as pirates because of the threat
they posed to trade, a position supported by the
Kuwaiti sociologist Khaldoun Al Naqeeb, author
of Society and State in the Gulf

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