imagine you are a king/queen and its time for you to step down as reining monarch, your mother and father are your predecesors and therefore your son or daughter would be heir, normally its the first born child
Laissez-faire capitalism....
I shut off the harbors that were bringing in supplies and it's a political battle too because if you take the biggest city then you strike more fear and often win.
It should be.... the Napoleonic Wars.
Sieur de La Salle wa the one who named it .