One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in the 1919 Revolution. Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments, In South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.

One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles' play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law. She is not at all afraid of the death he threatens her with (and eventually carries out), but she is afraid of how her conscience will smite her if she does not do this.

1. what was fought against in South Africa?
2. when did the rose revolution take place?
3. who did East Germany oust?
4. what are all these examples of?
5. what is one of the oldest plays about that?
6. who is her brother?
7. did she fear death?
8. did she die anyway?
9. what did she want for Polynices?
10. who was the former king of Thebes?
11. what is Creon trying to keep Antigone from?
12. does she defy him?
13. where did the velvet revolution take place?
14. where was the orange revolution?
15. when did it go down?
16. has America had civil disobedience?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. apartheid
2. 2003
3. their communist government
4. civil disobedience
5. Antigone
6. Polynices
7. no
8. yes
9. a proper burial
10. Oedipus
11. giving her brother Polynices a proper burial
12. yes
13. Czechoslovakia
14. Ukraine
15. 2004
16. yes