When in the early 7th century BC local Thracian and Paeonian tribes revolted, the Illyrians pulled out.

When Orestes refused, the tribes revolted under the leadership of the Scirian chieftain Odoacer.

Isaurian banditry remained an issue under the Romans, and the tribes revolted in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, with the largest rebellion being from 404 to 408.

However, the ten northern tribes revolted against his rule and invited Jeroboam to become their king.

As more English settlers moved west towards their lands and hunting grounds; Native American tribes revolted.

The Roxolani, angry over a Roman decision to cease the payments to which Trajan had agreed, allied themselves with the Iazyges and both tribes revolted against Rome.

Several Arabic tribes revolted against Abu Bakr.

But since the tribes revolted independently, Caesar met them one by one and cut them down, bloodily and savagely.

In 454, the Ostrogoths and other Germanic tribes revolted and the sons of Attila, who had quarreled among themselves, could not deal with the crisis.

When the British became the masters of Iraq at the end of World War I, the tribes revolted rather than submit to non-Muslim foreign rule.