This started a really long and complicated war that basically established the Bourbon dynasty in Spain and also awkwardly gave Gibraltar to the British.
This, combined with a shrewd series of marriage alliances, saw the territory which the Habsburgs ruled directly expand to cover most of modern-day Austria.
This final act united the houses of Lancaster and York through marriage and finally brought about an end to the Wars of the Roses and the start to the Tudor dynasty.
Under Abbasid rule, the elite enjoyed a lifestyle of luxury, thanks to extensive trade networks that brought both products and people from all over the known world to Baghdad.
At the head of Gwanghwamun Square sits the gleaming statue of Sejong the Great, the 15th century Joseon-dynasty king whose reign oversaw a golden age of literature, science and technology.
By way of contrast, in Austria the state was governed by the head of the House of Habsburg as Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia.
Maria was still the more senior of the pair, but Joseph played an active role in the governance of the Habsburg dominions for the last decade and a half of her life.
You see, across the 17th and 18th centuries, Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf right off of the Saudi Mainland had been ruled by various dynasties coming from Persia and Iran.
So what this means is that long before the birth of democracy in ancient Greece, there were already well-organized cities on several of the world's continents which present no evidence for ruling dynasties.