Great Game
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The Great Game was a period of intense political and diplomatic rivalry between Britain and Russia as they competed for control and influence over Central Asia between 1830 and 1895. This confrontation mattered because the two European powers' struggle to expand their empires in this strategically important region shaped the political boundaries and relationships in Central Asia for decades to come.
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1885 British map of Western Asia during the Great Game, with the Russian and Ottoman Empires, Qajar Iran, the southern fringes of Russian Turkestan, Afghanistan and western India "Afghanistan and her relation to British and Russian territories", 1885 American map of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and British and Russian territories
The Great Game (Russian: Большая игра, romanized: Bolshaya igra) was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia. Russia conquered Turkestan, and Britain expanded and set the borders of British India. By the early 20th century, a line of independent states, tribes, and monarchies from the shore of the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Himalayas were made into protectorates and territories of the two empires.