confederacies
Joined political entities
Confederacies is the plural of confederacy—an alliance or league formed for a common purpose, often political or military.
The term appears in historical contexts like the Iroquois Confederacy or the Confederate States of America.
More loosely, any group united by shared interests: confederacies of merchants, a confederacy of dunces.
Temporary alliance for action
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- allianceFormal union of parties
- pactFormal agreement between parties
- treatyBinding pact between nations
league · bloc · entente · partnership · consortium · syndicate · compact · axis
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- seditionInciting revolt against government
resistance · insurgency · mutiny · coup · subversion · revolution · dissent · defiance
coalition
Temporary alliance for action
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- allianceFormal union of parties
- pactFormal agreement between parties
treaty · league · bloc · entente · partnership · consortium · syndicate · compact · axis · union
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
sedition · resistance · insurgency · mutiny · coup · subversion · revolution · dissent · defiance · treason
faction
Group within group
partisan · wing · cadre · cell · junta · coterie · clan · circle · splinter · fringe
tribe
Social group sharing ancestry
council · indigenous · Iroquois · Powhatan · sachem · longhouse · wampum · kinship · intertribal · band
- clan alliancestreaties, pacts, blood oaths, marriage ties, coalitions
- Ancient KoreaKaya, gold crowns, royal tombs, dolmens, Samguk Yusa
confederaciesempires
Extensive ruled territories
absolute monarchies · autocracies · monarchies · dictatorships · despotisms
confederaciesdisunions
Formal separations of unions
disagreements · divisions · schisms · fragmentations · dissolutions
confederate, confederation, confederacy, confederates, confederating