AP World - Topic: Rebellions and Revolutions

Rebellions and Revolutions

Period 2 – Classical Era – 600 BCE – 600 CE

·         Spartacus Slave Rebellion (Rome) 76 BCE

·         Yellow Turban Rebellion 184 CE

Period 3 – Post-Classical Era – 600 CE - 1450 CE

·         Basil the Copper Hand’s peasant rebellion -900s CE- Byzantine Empire

·         Red Turban peasant rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty – 1340s

Period 4 – Early Modern Era – 1450 CE – 1750 CE

·         German Peasant Revolts 1524-1526 against mistreatment of peasantry by nobles (inspired by scriptural authority)

·         Kett’s Rebellion in England against lose of peasant’s rights / common land (Enclose Movement) – 1549

·         Shimabara Rebellion -1637 – Christian peasants against Tokugawa Shogunate

·         Boston Bread Riots – 1710s – against the British Empire / taxes

Period 5 – Modern Era – 1750 CE – 1900 CE

·         American (1776), French (1789), Haitian (1792), and Latin American (1820-1830s)—all inspired by Enlightenment ideals and, to a less extent, nationalism

·         Indian Revolt – 1857 – against British Rule

·         Boxer Rebellion – 1898 – against Western, Russian, and Japanese economic imperialism

Period 6 – Contemporary Era – 1900 CE - Present

·         Chinese Revolution (1911) – anti-Qing / pro-democracy

·         Russian Revolution (1917) – communism / anti-tsarist

·         Cuban Revolution (1956) – communism / anti-imperialism

·         All de-colonization movements (1950s and 1960s in Asia and Africa)

·         Revolutions of 1989 – anti-Soviet control in Eastern Europe