World Scholars Cup- History- The History Of Succes
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World Scholars Cup- History- The History of Succes
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World Scholars Cup- History- The History Of Succes
World Scholars Cup- History- The History of Succession
Line of Succession - Answer- the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position
absolute primogeniture - Answer- the first born becomes the monarch or inherited title, no matter if the child is a ...
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History of Succession
Line of Succession - Answer- the order in which individuals are expected to succeed
one another in some official position
absolute primogeniture - Answer- the first born becomes the monarch or inherited
title, no matter if the child is a boy or girl
agnatic primogeniture - Answer- Succession only through males in a dynastic line
(used in Feudal Europe Monarchies)
illegitimate child - Answer- offspring of unmarried parents
coronation - Answer- ceremony of crowning a queen or king
abdication - Answer- to give up one's position of authority
usurper - Answer- one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of
another
regency - Answer- A government or period of time in which a regent rules in place of
a king or queen.
Act of Settlement 1701 - Answer- No Catholic could be king of England; this
excluded the descendants of James II, known in the following century as the
Pretenders - James III and Charles(Bonnie Prince - the Old and the Young
Pretenders) who would receive some support from Jacobites who resisted
Hanoverian kings after last of Stuarts, Queen Anne died in 1714. This brought the
Scottish and English throne together.
Succession to the Crown Act 2013 - Answer- ends the system of male
primogeniture, under which a younger son can displace an elder daughter in the line
of succession. The Act applies to those born after 28 October 2011.
Perth Agreement - Answer- The Perth Agreement is an agreement made by the
prime ministers of those sixteen countries of the Commonwealth of Nations to
recognize the succession to the Crown Act for the common wealth
The Triumvirates (The Roman Republic:) - Answer- -The most ambitious men at this
time, whose power rested in their private armies, were Pompey, Crassus, and Julius
Caesar. Although they were rivals, they established a three way alliance known as a
Triumvirate (it was the first of two) in order to oppose the Senate, which thwarted
their design for personal aggrandizement. This delicate three way balance was upset
in 53 BC when Crassus died and the other two could not agree on redrawing their
spheres of influence (in part because of Caesar's stunning conquest of the Celts in
Gaul, modern France, during the 50s BC). The situation exploded into civil war (49-
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