Question
Answer some questions on early-modern applications of the sixth-century Salic law, which prohibited women from inheriting thrones and property. For 10 points each:
[10e] This female ruler’s father Charles VI passed the 1713 Pragmatic Sanction to allow her to inherit the throne. This ruler’s accession prompted the War of the Austrian Succession.
ANSWER: Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina of Austria
[10m] In this series of wars, one faction rallied to the cry of “God, Country and King” and repudiated the 1830 Pragmatic Sanction, abolishing semi-Salic law. The queen whose succession the first of these wars concerned was overthrown in the 1868 Glorious Revolution.
ANSWER: Carlist Wars [or First Carlist War] (The 1868 Glorious Revolution overthrew Isabella II.)
[10h] This specific duchy, originally an imperial fief, was inherited according to unmodified Salic law. A succession crisis began after Frederick VII’s death in 1863, as he would have different heirs in his kingdom and in this duchy.
ANSWER: Holstein [or Holsten; do not accept or prompt on “Schleswig-Holstein”]
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