After World War One, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the British and French Empires carved up the Middle East, with the British taking control of a region it called the British Mandate for Palestine.
The " Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts And Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the " less is more" trend.
Anthony Salz, a London lawyer whom Barclays commissioned to look into its business culture, found that pay at the bank was “focused on revenues and not on other aspects of performance”.
The British also smushed together the former Ottoman provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra into their mandate for Mesopotamia which would later evolve into the state of Iraq.