Early Terrorist Organizations
Name Description Activities Strength External Aid
| Opposed Roman rule over Palestine | Killed Jewish collaborators who supported Rome with the use of the dagger | Numbers are difficult to determine |
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| A sect of Shiism, a branch of Ismail'is, devoted to attack the dominate Muslim majority and followers of Hasan-i Sabbah | Individual attacks on enemies targeted by the Assassin leadership | Unknown but prevalent along the Syrian and Lebanon border region, but originated in Persia. |
None |
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| Political party that emerged as a result of the French Revolution and militantly favored a republican government for France. The Jacobins were ably led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Lenin of the French Revolution. | Infiltrated existing organizations on the Parisian and provincial level. Used the workers, the Sans Culottes, as their shock troops to intimidated their class enemies as well as the organs of the First Republic to terrorize their opponents. | Small and centered in Paris and relied upon the educated elite and militant working class to maintain position in France as well as the Guillotine and the Revolutionary Tribunals/Committee of Public Safety/ General Security to retain power. |
None |