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Describe the political ramifications of “The Great Game”.
The weakening of the Ottoman Empire and Qing empires turned Central Asia not a political vacuum and invited Russian expansion into the region. For the next half century, military officers and imperialist adventurers engaged in a risky pursuit of influence and intelligence that the British refereed to as the "Great Game"