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The Dutch Revolt - The Eighty Years' War of the Dutch Republic against Spain (1568 - 1648)
The Dutch Revolt (the Eighty Years' War) was the Dutch war of independence against Spain. For 80 years the Dutch waged war against the Spanish crown. How did the Dutch Revolt start? The Reformation early 1500s caused many people in the Low...
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Artaxerxes II
Artaxerxes II (r. 404-358 BCE, also known as Artaxerxes II Mnemon) was the 10th monarch of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE). He was the son of Darius II (r. 424-404 BCE) and Parysatis (who was Darius II's half-sister) and older brother...
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Peasants Revolt | 3 Minute History
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The Delian League, Part 4: The Ten Years War (431/0-421/0 BCE)
This text is part of an article series on the Delian League. The fourth phase of the Delian League encompasses the first part of the Great Peloponnesian War, also referred to as the Ten Years War, sometimes called quite incorrectly The Archidamian...
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Kingdom of Israel
The Kingdom of Israel occupied that part of the land on the Mediterranean Sea known as the Levant which corresponds roughly to the State of Israel of modern times. The region was known, historically, as part of Canaan, as Phoenicia, as Palestine...
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The History of Premodern Japan: Go Daigo Tenno and the Revolt Against Kamakura
In this lecture, the defeat of Go-Toba is explained, followed by the revolt against Kamakura in Pre-modern Japan.
By: Kanda University of International Studies.
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Freedom or Death: The Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811
In January 1811, five hundred slaves of south Louisiana rose in active rebellion against their masters in the largest slave revolt in American history. Support Atun-Shei Films on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/atunsheifilms Leave...
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Ten Minute History - The Dutch Revolt (Short Documentary)
This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the rise of Calvinism in the Spanish Seventeen Provinces and the subsequent outbreak of the Dutch Revolt/Eighty Years' War. William the Silent led the United Provinces'...
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Aegina
Aegina is an island in the Saronic Gulf, south of Athens. It was one of Greece's early maritime powers, famous for minting the earliest coins in Greece which were accepted all over the Mediterranean region. According to the classical writer...
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Gabriel's Rebellion | The Story of Gabriel Prosser and the Slave Revolt
- Prosser planned an insurrection to capture Richmond and massacre whites
- He was a educated slave, and worked as a blacksmith
- He intended to make himself king of a new black nation