Charles and his wife Elizabeth Christine had not had children, since 1711, Charles had been the sole surviving male member of the House of Habsburg. Charles's older brother, Joseph I, had died without male issue, leaving Joseph's daughter Maria Josepha as the heir presumptive. That presented two problems. First, a prior agreement with his brother, known as the Mutual Pact of Succession, had agreed that in the absence of male heirs, Joseph's daughters would take precedence over Charles's daughters in all Habsburg lands. Though Charles had no children, if he were to be survived by daughters alone, they would be cut out of the inheritance. Secondly, because Salic law precluded female inheritance, Charles VI needed to take extraordinary measures to avoid a protracted succession dispute, as other claimants would have surely contested a female inheritance. Charles VI was definitely succeeded by his own elder daughter, Maria Theresa (born 1717). However, despite the promulgation of the Pragmatic Sanction, her accession in 1740 resulted in the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession as Charles-Albert of Bavaria, backed by France, contested her inheritance. After the war, Maria Theresa's inheritance of the Habsburg lands was confirmed by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and the election of her husband, Francis I, as Holy Roman Emperor was secured by the Treaty of Füssen.
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I went to a plantation during spring break and I learned in depth how slaves were treated. But one that really stuck out to me is how the women were treated as s3x objects. They were rap3d and they were also forced to have children to increase the slave populations.
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Officially recognized as the one of the seven wonders of the
modern world by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Panama Canal was
and still is one of the biggest and hardest engineering feats ever
accomplished. It greatly reduced the
time necessary to get from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean but unfortunately it
also led to the resentment of various Latin countries including Columbia towards
the US because of the role US played in the conflict between Panama and Columbia.
