AP World: Modern - AMSCO 4.6

Ndongo

Angolan kingdom that reached its peak during the reign of Queen Nzinga

Matamba

A pre-colonial African state located in what is now modern day Angola

Black Sea

Large body of water separating Ukraine from Turkey

steppe

sparse, dry, treeless grassland

Maratha Empire

The Maratha or Mahratta Confederacy was a South Asian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818.

mirs

village communes

Ana Nzinga

became ruler of Ndongo in south-central Africa in 1624

Yemelyan Pugachev

Cossack who began a peasant rebellion against Catherine the Great in 1774

Queen Nanny

an escaped slave who united all the Maroons of the island

James II

a Catholic king who greatly angered Parliament nobles and whose actions led to the Glorious Revolution

William of Orange

Dutch prince invited to be king of England after The Glorious Revolution

Mary II

Daughter of James II. Married to William of Orange, enthroned as protestant leader.

Mohegan

a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War

Pequot

A member of an American Indian people of southern New England.

Wampanoag

subjugation of these Native Americans ended the Metacom's War

Fronde

The last aristocratic civil disturbance against a French monarch.

Metacom's War

First large-scale conflict between colonists and Native Americans, waged in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut (1675-1676)

Pugachev Rebellion

unsuccessful peasant rising led by cossack Yemelyan Pugachev during the 1770s; typical of peasant unrest during the 18th century and thereafter.

Pueblo Revolt

took place in 1680 against the Spanish in what is now New Mexico

Maroon Wars

Slaves in the Caribbean and former Spanish territories in the Americas fought to gain freedom

Gloucester County Rebellion

the first recorded slave revolt in what is now the United States

Glorious Rebellion

(1688) Relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular Catholic monarch, James II, replacing him with Dutch-born William III and Mary, daughter of James II.