WSC 2023 History Questions with Correct Answers|FULL Solutions 2023

WSC 2023 History FULL Solutions The Salic Law A frankish civil law code compiled around the year 500, and that no woman can hold the throne, and all women must be excluded from transferring succession rights. Continental Hereditary Monarchies A system where the throne is passed from one member of the family to the other Line of succession People that are next in line for crown, or the leader of a position Absolute Primogeniture The oldest child succeeds the throne, REGARDLESS of gender. Agnatic Primogeniture The son or the brother or the next male descendents succeed the throne. If there are no male descendents at all, then the daughter or the next female descendent is chosen to succeed the throne. Illegitimate Child A child born to people who are not married (An example of this, is Marie Antonette who had an illegitimate child with Count Axel von Fersen, a Swedish diplomat, not Louis XVI). As a result, these children still inherit the throne under the name of the parent whose raise the child.