This is kind of a weird question -- to ask students to predict stuff that already happened...
In the years after 1870, those three nations' fortunes diverged quite a bit. Belgium's power declined, Germany's increased, Great Britain's remained the same.
I guess you could say that you should have seen that coming based on the size of the countries and their empires. Belgium was much smaller and had very little empire, so its power was likely to decrease because its economic power would decrease relative to the others. Germany had just unified and was now a large country. Therefore, its power would increase. Great Britain already had a large empire so it had no reason to lose power.
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