TOPIC 4.6 Internal & External Challenges to State Power

THEMATIC FOCUS

Governance GOV

A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.

Learning Objective

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS

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Unit 4: Learning Objective L Explain the effects of the development of state power from 1450 to 1750.

KC-4.3.III.iii State expansion and centralization led to resistance from an array of social, political, and economic groups on a local level.

Local Resistance: Pueblo Revolts, Fronde, Cossack Revolts, Maratha conflict with Mughals, Metacom’s War, Ana Nzinga’s resistance

KC-4.3.III.C

Slave resistance challenged existing authorities in the Americas.

Slave resistance: The establishment of Maroon societies in the Caribbean and Brazil, North American slave resistance (