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    Nikita Jigurda and Prometheus rebellions and their deeds Every day we face a choice. To go on a lesson or not‚ to do homework or not‚ to study or go to cinema‚ to be follow advice of the elder or to reject and make your own the choice? Every day we either agree to something or we reject it. And thus we form a society‚ in which each of us sometimes the conformist‚ and sometimes the rebel‚ but who they actually‚ these rebels? Nikita Jigurda and Prometheus are vivid examples of rebels. One is from

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    “With regards to the riots in my home state‚ which you asked me about: I wish I could say that people exaggerated them.”. Shays’ Rebellion was a protest in Massachusetts( 1786- 1787) led by Daniel Shays and his followers protesting economic and civil rights for the lower classes. They attempted to seize weapons and overthrow the government by showing up to courthouses with the weapons to free people like them‚ from the court . Although many historians think that the farmers were reckless rebels

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    The Telangana Rebellion was a peasant revolt which was later supported by the Communists. It took place in the former princely state of Hyderabad between 1946 and 1951. This was led by the Communist Party of India.[5] The revolt began in the Nalgonda district and quickly spread to the Warangal and Bidar districts. Peasant farmers and labourers revolted against the local feudal landlords (jagirdars and deshmukhs) and later against the Osman Ali Khan‚ Asif Jah VII. The initial aims were to do away

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    The Sepoy Rebellion versus the Taiping Rebellion Although India and China are different when it comes to religion and culture‚ the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Rebellion in India had their similarities and their differences‚ which allowed them to succeed in some parts of their rebellions and fail in other. However‚ neither of these rebellions were truly successful in the sense that neither of them achieved their main goals. Even though the leaders of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Taiping

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    4. Bacon’s rebellion- A rebellion against Native American tribes by led by Planter Nathaniel Bacon after his foreman was murdered by an indian arrow. This was just the straw that broke the camel’s back the colonists had growing frustrations that their expectations for safety had not been met. So‚ after Planter Nathaniel Bacon’s foreman was murdered by indians he put together a small band of colonists who began to revengefully murdering both peaceful and hostile tribes in the Virginian area. The rebellion

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    the French and Indian War as well as Pontiac’s Rebellion; Shays’ Rebellion‚ which were a chain of protest by American farmers from New Hampshire

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    I hold it‚ that a little rebellion‚ now and then‚ is a good thing‚ and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas JeffersonPolitical rebellion takes place when the people of a country feel it is essential that a change in government is made. Different nations have different ideas about the responsibilities of government‚ and as a result there are many possible reasons for political rebellion. John Locke‚ an English medical doctor and philosopher who lived until 1704‚

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    rebelled and held a revolt in Colonial Virginia. High taxes‚ low prices for tobacco‚ and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor‚ Sir William Berkeley‚ provided the background for the uprising. These factors made the rebellion inevitable. All of the chaos was precipitated by Governor Berkeley’s failure to defend the frontier against attacks by Native Americans. Bacon commanded two unauthorized but successful expeditions against the tribes and was then elected to the new

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    The 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion and The Rise of Cuffy The Berbice Slave Uprising is the most famous slave revolt in Guyana. Causes: 1. Slaves’ resentment of the ill-treatment received by estate managers and overseers 2. Lack of food provisions for slaves (resulting in them being underfed.) 3. The desire of some to officially partition Berbice with the Dutch‚ just like Djuku tribe of Surinam had done in 1761. Course: The rebellion began on February‚ 23rd

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    The rebellions which occurred during the reign of Edward VI were mainly political in origin The rebellions which occurred during the reign of Edward VI were mainly religious and not political in origin. The political reasons for the rebellions are that there were absent landlords‚ mainly because they were in the council‚ which meant the peasants had no-one to stop them and the incompetent advisors‚ Peter Carew‚ sent down to deal with the issue. The religious reasons were that the reforms of Somerset

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