Destined to fight and die in servitude, a group of rebel Gladiators plot their escape. Led to freedom by none other than the heroic ex-Roman soldier and master of combat, Spartacus, the rebels emerge on Mount Vesuvius.
From the outset of the Roman conquest of Britannia, the flame of rebellion is smouldering. Many Celtic tribes are forced to submit to Emperor Claudius, with the exception of the Iceni. With the death of the Iceni King, peace will be shattered.
In the wake of the Black Death a labour shortage gives the underclass leverage to demand better wages, but England's involvement in the Hundred Year War has left the treasury empty and Britain's Baron's are sick of paying for it all.
During the Ancien Regime, France is composed of the Clergy, the Nobility and everyone else... With none of the rights or privileges of the other two, the Third Estate's chance to escape a life of squalor can only come on a tide of change.
After years of fighting arm-in-arm with their British compatriots, American colonists are shocked by stern import duties enacted over the heads of the colonies. The Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, and Townshend Act incite open rebellion.
A secret society of Russian military officers with dreams of political revolution set out to overthrow the Romanovs by spreading a lie about one Tsar usurping another.
