Two types of resistance: internal resistance within the conquering empire and resistance from the people getting conquered
Resistance to Portugal in Africa
- Queen Ana Nzinga of Ndongo protested against the slave raids from Portugal that had plagued her kingdom
- She entered in deal with Portuguese to stop these slave raids and for Portuguese to offer protection from raids by other tribes
- Portuguese still took land from her kingdom, so she allied with Dutch and incited a rebellion against the Portuguese
Local Russian Resistance
- In 1774, freed serfs named Cossacks rose up in rebellion against the system of serfdom
- Known as the Pugachev Rebellion
- Were crushed by the Russian state
- Serfs’ rights were further restricted and monitored more closely to prevent such a rebellion from happening again
Rebellion in the Mughal Empire
- Rebellion fueled by religion rose
- Mughals, the rulers were Muslim, while majority of population was Hindu
- A group of Hindu warriors called the Marathas rose up to resist the Mughals
- By the 1700s the Maratha Empire had permanently weakened and diminished the authority of the Mughals
Revolts in the Spanish Empire
- In the Spanish colonies of North America, the Pueblo Revolt took place in modern New Mexico in 1680
- The Native American tribes there had grown fed up with Spanish rule and their forced Christian converts and were able to kick the Spanish for about 10 years
- Spanish after those ten years came back and reconquered the territory
Struggles for Power in England and Its Colonies
- Metacom’s War was the final major attempt of the Native Americans to kick out the British from North America
- British however won and further persecuted the Natives
