The Art of Revolting (or Lack of It) Quiz

The Flemish Coast Uprising began in 1323 and ended in 1328. It began because of the unpopular Count Louis I, who taxed his subjects very harshly and also maintained very pro-French policies, which further alienated the peasants from their overlord.

The revolt was subdued with French military intervention, culminating in the 1328 Battle of Cassel. One of the rebel leaders, Nicolaas Zannekin, was killed during that battle while his confederate, William Deken, was captured and put to death.

The Saint George's Night Uprising came to be as a combination of social, ethnic, and religious grounds. Local Estonians were being oppressed by the Baltic German aristocracy, they resented the foreign rule of Denmark, and many of them still clung to the pagan religion of their forefathers.

The rebellion began with coordinated attacks on manors and fortified churches and spread all over the country, requiring significant military intervention in order to be suppressed. Denmark, appalled by the scale of the Uprising, sold her Estonian possessions to the Teutonic Knights just a year after the revolt was over.

The 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, spearheaded by Wat Tyler, had its origins in both the ongoing participation of the realm in the Hundred Years' War and in the long-term consequences of the Black Death pandemic.

Although it was ultimately suppressed and its leaders were either killed in action or executed, it captured the fancy of many a writer and intellectual, including Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke. Many later revolutionaries viewed their cause as similar to that of Wat Tyler.

The catalyst for the Bobalna revolt was the avarice of the Catholic Bishop Gyorgy Lepes. His unfair tax policy, combined with the hostility of the Orthodox majority local population and the desire of lesser nobles to acquire more privileges within the Kingdom of Hungary, which ruled supreme over Transylvania at that moment, were the major causes.

The rebellion lasted some months before its defeat, with no gains for the peasants, called Vlachs. The local Vlachs remained at the bottom of the social ladder for a very long time

In the 1470s, Carinthia was a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire. Being located directly on the Empire's frontier with the Ottoman Turks, it was routinely subjected to raids and incursions by them. Although the authorities from Vienna had managed to prevent full scale invasions at the time being, the plundering expeditions were too much for the local peasants, who formed an army in 1478 to stop a raid.

Yet, when the Turkish akincis came, many peasants deserted the ragtag force, hurrying to protect their households. Several hundreds, however, made a stand in Kukovo, only to be slaughtered. Eventually, after pillaging the countryside and enslaving many peoples, the Turks withdrew. Yet, the Carinthians had to face the wrath of the Habsburgs for their alleged insubordination. Their surviving leader, Peter Wunderlich, was captured and executed publicly.

The German Peasants' War was partly inspired by the Protestant Reformation. The spread of Martin Luther's teachings, which condemned the practices of Catholic bishops, such as the selling of indulgences, added fuel to the fire.

Despite this, Luther was vehemently against the uprising, urging the nobles to smash the rebellious peasants as if they were rabid dogs, in stark contrast to the support given to their cause by Huldrych Zwingli. Poorly trained and outfitted, an estimated 100,000-300,000 of the peasants were killed.

The rebellion was part of a wider war of succession in Denmark, known as Count's Feud, because of the support Count Christopher of Oldenburg gave to the deposed King Christian II. Skipper Clement was a privateer and supporter of Christian II who found the perfect chance to combine the wider war with his peasant insurrection.

Although he initially scored a victory at Svenstrup, Clement and his men were driven back to their base at Aalborg, which was then besieged by the royal troops and reinforcements from the North German states. Eventually, Aalborg was taken, and Clement tried to escape, but he was found and executed. King Christian II did not get his throne back.

The Dacke War was both a tax revolt and a war of religion, since the Lutheran Swedish state confronted the still Catholic rebels from Smaland and Ostergotland. Although Nils Dacke had the support of the local churchmen, his cause didn't find adherents within the nobility and even magnates opposed the King Gustav I's policies sided with him against Dacke.

The rebellion was crushed, and the rebels who escaped capital punishment had to serve grueling military service in Finland.

The Upper Austrian Peasant War had origins in both social tensions and the wider religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Europe (the Thirty Years-War). At that time, the nobles of Upper Austria, closely aligned with Bavaria, were pushing for the re-introduction of Catholicism in the parts of the area where the Reformation had gained a foothold.

Both sides engaged in the struggle with fairly large forces and, before the rebellion was over, at least twenty thousand people had been killed. In the end, the Catholics won, and the rebel leaders Stefan Fadinger and Christoph Zeller perished.

The Khmelnytsky Uprising is one of the most important events in the history of Eastern Europe. It was the culmination of a series of revolts by the Ukrainian Cossacks in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which were driven both by a desire to stop the persecution of their Orthodox faith and to halt the discrimination against them on ethnic and social grounds.

The Uprising led to drastic changes in the region, including the formation of the Cossack Hetmanate and the interventions of both Muscovy (since the medieval politonym of Rus' was appropriated by the Romanov dynasty only in the reign of Peter I, it is appropriate to still speak of Muscovites) and Sweden.

Events associated with it, like the Pereyaslav Agreement, have continued to shape international relations even three centuries and a half after the events themselves.