Glossary
British-Russian contest for supremacy over Central Asia after Russia's nineteenth-century expansion.
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Great Game
British-Russian contest for supremacy over Central Asia after Russia's nineteenth-century expansion.
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diagnosis
Britain responded to Russia's growth through divide-and-conquer balancing, encouraging Ottomans and French to constrain Russia and later contesting Russia in Central Asia.
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European dominance repeatedly shifts among powers, and the balance-of-power system turns each rising hegemon into the target of wider coalitions.
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"...major setback for the Russians. And this creates something called the Great Game, where the Russians are now being helmed in by the British...."
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"In World War I, they also have trenches. We'll be talking about this later on. All right, so as I said before, the thing..."
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"So 1554, the Ottomans now are in control, and they're at 24 million. The Holy Roman Empire goes down to 19 million, but France..."
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"So England and Russia will fight something called the Great Game. We'll be going over this in a future class, okay? So the rivalry..."
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"...israelis so now we go to the fourth player in this great game and that's iran so iran it is a theocracy people are..."
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"...the Napoleonic Wars seven of them it includes something called the Great Game a war between Russia and Britain uh for control of Central..."
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