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Wikipedia: The Great Game is a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. A second, less intensive phase followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 .
![[Political cartoon depicting the Afghan Emir Sher Ali with his "friends" the Russian Bear and British Lion]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Great_Game_cartoon_from_1878_s.jpg "Political cartoon depicting the Afghan Emir Sher Ali with his \"friends\" the Russian Bear and British Lion")
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![[Central Asia, circa 1848]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persia_afghanistan_1848_s.jpg "Central Asia, circa 1848")
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![[Greater Persia at the beginning of the Great Game in 1814]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Persia_1814_s.jpg "Greater Persia at the beginning of the Great Game in 1814")
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