ABSTRACT
This chapter includes most of the recorded internal disturbances of importance, from the relatively small disorders to the biggest revolutions, which have taken place in the life history of Greece, Rome, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Byzantium, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia. The greater the amount of violence displayed and the larger the social classes involved actively in a disturbance, the greater the magnitude of the disturbance, other conditions being equal. Generally, disturbances in the main cities of a given country are much more weighty than in small cities or in villages that lie upon the periphery of the nation's life and whose system of interaction is very small and limited. The disturbances are divided into five classes: predominantly political disturbances; predominantly socioeconomic disturbances; national and separatistic disturbances; religious disturbances; and disturbances with specific objectives —like some personal change in the government.
