AP®︎ World History: Topic 4.6 Flashcards

French rebellions from 1648–1653 against royal taxation and centralization; their failure helped Louis XIV strengthen the monarchy and control the nobility

The Parlement phase involved courts and officeholders resisting taxes; the Princes phase involved powerful nobles competing with Cardinal Mazarin for influence

Minister who governed France with Anne of Austria during Louis XIV’s minority; his taxes and centralizing policies helped provoke the Fronde

French king whose experience of the Fronde encouraged closer supervision of nobles and a more centralized, absolutist monarchy

Frontier military communities of warriors, migrants, and fugitives who valued local autonomy and resisted Russian efforts to regulate them, return fugitives, and impose imperial control

Ukrainian Cossack revolt beginning in 1648 against Poland-Lithuania that sought Russian support, helping expand Russian influence while creating disputes over Cossack autonomy

1680 Indigenous uprising in New Mexico that expelled the Spanish for about twelve years and led Spain, after reconquest, to tolerate more Pueblo religious practices

Pueblo religious leader who coordinated the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonial and missionary rule

Ruler of Ndongo and Matamba who used warfare, diplomacy, conversion, and a Dutch alliance to resist Portuguese expansion; Portugal recognized her Matamba rule in 1656

Regional struggle against Mughal expansion in western India whose prolonged Deccan warfare drained Mughal resources and contributed to imperial fragmentation and rising Maratha power

Maratha ruler crowned in 1674 who captured forts and territory using mobile cavalry and Deccan terrain to challenge Mughal and regional authorities

Mughal emperor from 1658–1707 whose prolonged, expensive Deccan campaigns against the Marathas and other powers drained imperial resources and weakened Mughal control

1675–1678 New England war over English settlement, land loss, and sovereignty; colonial victory devastated Native communities and accelerated English territorial expansion

Wampanoag leader who organized a multi-people Indigenous alliance against English colonial expansion before being killed in 1676

Independent communities founded by escaped enslaved people that defended autonomy, aided fugitives, and challenged colonial governments through settlement, trade, raids, and guerrilla warfare

Large seventeenth-century quilombo complex in northeastern Brazil led by figures including Ganga Zumba and Zumbi; Portuguese forces destroyed its principal center in 1694

Revolt in which enslaved Africans set a fire and attacked responding colonists; authorities executed participants and imposed harsher restrictions afterward

1739 South Carolina revolt in which enslaved people seized weapons and marched toward Spanish Florida before militia defeat; it prompted stricter slave controls

Don Cossack leader who led a major uprising against Russian officials, landlords, and expanding state control and was executed after its defeat

1670–1671 uprising of Cossacks, peasants, townspeople, and non-Russian communities against Russian officials and landlords; its defeat strengthened state and elite control