Rebel Alliance

slaves did not like how they were treated nor would the masters like it if they were the slaves. No human would like to be controlled nor beaten by someone who owned them. Newman characterized the black rebellions as being “swift and brutal”. These rebels were shot down by militias or local white men and tortured for information on future rebellions. Many captured were tortured in public and left out for slaves to see what would happen to them if they rebelled. As the slaves came in huge ships…

Between 1553-1558, Mary I experienced limited pretender threats, the only one arising from her decision to marry the Spanish prince, Philip II. The prospect of a marriage alliance with Spain was unpopular with the English people who believed England would be involved in wars without the support of the nation. His strong Catholic faith combined with that of Mary’s also stirred up resentment and fear among the Protestant population in England and as a result, a Protestant courtier, Thomas Wyatt,…

to Greek-city states seeking “water and earth” - which acted as tokens of submission to Persian rule. Many city-states submitted, but the two major powers, Athens and Sparta, threw the envoys down a hole in response. This created an anti-Persian alliance between Sparta and Athens ending a period of conflict between the two cities. In 490 B.C.E., Darius sent an army led by Datis the Mede and Artaphernes the Younger across the Aegean Sea to Eretria. The Persians plundered the city and took its…

Bacon’s Rebellion: Dissecting the Inscriptions of the Oppressed “The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner ways." The events of the Late Rebellion in the Virginia Colony provides the substance to this quote, as it is told to be the infamous words of colonist Nathaniel Bacon. What transpired during this time is well-recorded…

When reading this paper, it is important to keep in mind that many of the sources that were used were written after the events had already occurred. With saying that, one should still take into consideration that these pieces of written history are valuable and can shed some light on Roman history, culture, ideologies, and beliefs. Most of the information in this paper comes from the works of Polybius, who lived between 200 and 118 BCE, Livy, who lived between 59 and 17 BCE, and the Twelve…

He also sent many fine gifts, tokens of his esteem which he hoped would Placate the strangers or, better still, spur them to return from whence they came. The gold only Tempted the Spanish even more to find more riches. Hernan Cortés made an alliance with the Totonac making an army of more than 1,000 native soldiers as well as 200 porters. Hernan Cortés defeated the Tlaxcala’s by superior weaponry even though they were vastly Outnumbered. Cortés took Moctezuma hostage in the Spaniards…

Harbinger of a Fatal Flaw Sheikh Salman al Oudah, a Saudi cleric whom bin Laden had once lauded as his “ideal personality,” wrote an open letter to bin Laden repudiating the actions of al Qaeda (Wright, 2011, p. 67). Further disseminating the letter on the internet and to the media, Sheikh Salman scathingly rebuked al Qaeda’s indiscriminate murder of innocent people, arguing the “regime has stopped ruling people according to what God revealed” (Wright, 2011, p. 66). He condemend bin Laden’s…

Costa Rica is democratic country located in Central America, situated between both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, amongst Nicaragua and Panama. Costa Rica is a predominately-Spanish speaking Catholic country. Almost 90 percent of the population is white or mestizo (a person of combined European and Amerindian descent) with the remainder of the population being indigenous and of African descent. Costa Rica, initially reconnoitered by the Spanish around the sixteenth century…

not owned by settlers but by people who invest in property. During this time, farmers began to look at Eastern money sharks in order to obtain money. B. Why was it written? This document was written to demonstrate that the farmers had a reason to rebel and to demonstrate the dissatisfaction of the farmers. C. Evidence (2 quotes) ‘When we went to the moneylenders, these men, often, dishonest…

European countries through the Eighteenth century had become very dependent on their colonies in the Americas. Most of the colonies had the same situations, watched by the crown from across the sea, they were assets to a much more powerful master. Every colony in Latin America would eventually tire of being exploited, and would begin to revolt slowly relating to each other rather than their ancestry. One of the outliers in this process was Brazil, who experienced a much different road to…