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Seleucid Palestine on the eve of the Maccabean Revolt 167–161 BCE
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Seleucid Palestine on the eve of the Maccabean Revolt 167–161 BCE
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The empire founded by Seleucus, one of the heir-generals of Alexander the Great, was entering a prolonged death spiral by 167 BCE, when revolt erupted in Judaea. Battered by the rising power of Parthia, bullied by the established power of Rome, the Seleucids were increasingly plagued by civil unrest and... More
Ship Money in England and Wales 1636
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Ship Money in England and Wales 1636
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Levied intermittently since Medieval times in England and Wales, ship money was a tax that was raised by royal prerogative, without parliamentary consent. It was inflicted on coastal cities and counties for naval defence in times of war. In 1629, after constitutional disputes, King Charles I had dismissed parliament and,... More
Social Unrest 1648
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Social Unrest 1648
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The wave of social unrest that swept Russia in the late 1640s was triggered by a government decision to consolidate a plethora of small levies into a single, and universal, salt tax. Merchants and nobility were generally able to concoct exemptions, so the burden fell disproportionately upon serfs and the... More
Solomon’s Core Territories 970–931 BCE
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Solomon’s Core Territories 970–931 BCE
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Solomon ruled over a united kingdom of Israel, with Judah having its own political authority and special privileges. David, Solomon’s father and predecessor, had turned Edom and Moab into Israelite vassal states. After David’s death, they became rebellious and difficult to control. The core territories were the twelve provinces of... More
The 1905 Revolution
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The 1905 Revolution
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The 1905 Russian Revolution swept across the Russian Empire and began when Russian Cossacks attacked a peaceful demonstration of workers. This acted as a catalyst for empire-wide uprisings. On the battleship Potemkin the crewmembers, several of whom were revolutionaries, were tired of their appalling working conditions, including being fed maggot... More
The Act of Union 1707
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The Act of Union 1707
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The accession of the Stuart King James I (1603) unified the monarchies but not the polities of England and Scotland. Following the Restoration, Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters considered themselves betrayed by Charles II’s disavowal of the Treaty of Breda (1650), which had guaranteed support for their religious objectives, and mounted a... More
The Arab Revolt April–August 1936
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The Arab Revolt April–August 1936
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By 1936, disquiet amongst Palestine’s Arab population had reached breaking point. The influx of Jewish settlers was constant and had begun to seriously affect the Arabs’ ability to earn a living as land was bought up by Jewish settlement funds and Arabs were excluded from employment opportunities. On 15 April,... More
The First Jewish Revolt 69–70 CE
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The First Jewish Revolt 69–70 CE
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With four full Roman legions bearing down on them, bent on their destruction, the rebellious Jewish defenders of Jerusalem decided to embark on a full-scale civil war. While there were numerous sub-factions, the heart of the conflict pitted Zealot refugees from the rebellion in Galilee against the Sanhedrin, or Religious... More
The General Strike 1926
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The General Strike 1926
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On 3 May 1926, in response to a reduction in wages and an increase in working for hours for miners that had already led to disputes and one million miners being locked out of the mines, the Trades Union Congress (TUC ) called a strike. Out of solidarity with the... More
The German Peasants’ War 1524–26
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The German Peasants’ War 1524–26
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The German Peasants’ War lasted between 1524–26 and was the largest uprising in Europe until the French Revolution. It began near Stuhlingen and Schaffhausen on 24 June 1524 and spread throughout Germany, with its last uprisings in the Tyrol on 3 July 1526. Inspired by the Reformation, the peasants believed... More
The Netherlands c. 1648
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The Netherlands c. 1648
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The Dutch Revolt began in protest against the Spanish ruling monarch, Philip II. The Dutch throne had become one of the many hereditary seats of power that were amassed under the Habsburg Empire. When Charles V began the process of abdication, his son Philip II became king of Spain and... More
The Rising of 1641
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The Rising of 1641
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The Irish rebellion of 1641 was ‘conceived among us, but we never felt it kick in the womb, nor struggle at the birth’ according to a Protestant settler. What began as an aristocratic coup d’etat rapidly mutated into violent attacks against the Plantation Protestant colonies by dispossessed Irish Catholics. The... More