Western Civilization II / Unit 4 WC2 0322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Europe After Utrecht: The Austrian Succession and the Pragmatic Sanction
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The idea
The anchor calls Prussia's mid-century wars a land-grab from Austria and stops. The witness supplies the frame: Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction securing Maria Theresa's inheritance, Frederick's seizure of Silesia in seventeen forty, and the War of the Austrian Succession to seventeen forty-eight.
In practice
Silesia stayed Prussian; the Diplomatic Revolution realigned the powers.
Where people slip
This entry rests on the witness texts, not the anchor.
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