AP World 4.6

KEY TERMS

• Fronde civil disturbances - in France between 1648 and 1653 attempted to curb growing Royal power.
• Metacom’s War - King Phillip’s War: English colonists used underhanded tactics to control Native American lands
• Ana Nzinga - Ruler of Ndongo in south-central Africa (present-day Angola.
• Matamba - African state conquered by Nzinga
• Russian territory expanded west to the Baltic and east to Siberia, expanding Serfdom.
• Mirs - Village communes, controlled the small landholders among the peasants
• Steppes - Grassy, treeless land that held skilled fighting peasants.
• Black Sea - sea near Southwest Moscow.
• Yemelyan Pugachev - Began a peasant rebellion against Catherine the Great in 1774. Pretended to be Catherine’s murdered husband and rebelled with a ton of peasants. Captured by the Russian army and executed by the Russian government.
• Pugachev Rebellion - caused Catherine to increase her oppression of the peasants and gain more support from nobles.
• The Maratha - Hindu warrior group, fought the Mughals in a series of battles from 1680-1707. Created the Maratha Empire.
• The Pueblo Revolt - The Pueblo and Apache, fought colonizers who were trying to convert their religion. They killed about 400 Spaniards, destroyed churches. Spanish reconquered them in 1692.
• England defeated Spanish colonists and took control of much of Jamaica in 1655.
• Maroon wars - Slaves in the Caribbean and former Spanish territories in the Americas fought to gain freedom.
• Queen Nanny - Escaped slave that united all the maroons of the island.
• Gloucester Country Rebellion - First recorded slave revolt (1663)
• Metacom’s War - Indigenous effort to drive British from New England. Resulted in the destruction of 12 towns.
• Mohegan and Pequot - Native American groups that sided with the English.
• Wampanoag - subjugated to the English colonists.
• James II - King of England, catholic