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| The capital of Germany and the city at one end of the Berlin-Baghdad railway |
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| city in the Ottoman Empire planned as the end of the German railway |
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| The gateway to trade between the east and west. It connect the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, owned by Egypt, a protectorate of Great Britain |
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| The empire of Turkey, a Muslim empire that was centuries old and controlled east to west trade |
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| A region between China and Russia that was frequently fought over |
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| Russia's major port on the Pacific, their only one. |
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| France and Belgium opposed Great Britain in the Upper Nile region of Africa |
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| France had invaded Tunis in the 1880's for no reason except economic expansion |
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| Italy conquered Ethiopia in order to gain a foothold in Africa |
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| The British brutally conquered Burma in 1885, making it part of India |
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| The name of Sri Lanka under the British Empire--one of their most important possessions |
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| Singapore, an island at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, was considered a vital part of the British Empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress. |
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| A British protectorate in Indonesia. |
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| rich territory that France lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war |
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| An independent Balkan state that supported nationalism in the Balkans and a partnership with Russia |
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| Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia---Bosnia was part of the Austrian empire. |
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