For a country? >Charles II of Spain >tries to leave his kingdom to a grandson of Louis XIV, on the assumption that only France would have the military strength to keep the Spanish empire together >France has to fight all of Europe combined and in the ensuing compromise peace, it’s decided that Spain will lose the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, Menorca, Sardinia
>Philip IV the Fair of France >three sons, but none of whom sire suitable heirs >daughter who marries the king of France >eventually leads to three claimants: Philip VI (selected by the French), Edward III (king of England claiming the throne through his French mother), and the King of Navarre (also claiming the throne through his mother, the granddaughter of Philip IV) >leads to the Hundred Years’ War
War of Spanish Succession was a result of British insistence on instigating destruction and bloodshed in Europe to prevent a continental hegemon from emerging, even if it means turning Europe itself into a plaything between the US and the USSR
The tell tale sign of a chronically online moron IQfyposter: thinking that "le BONGZ!" were the only country in Europe with a vested interest in not being subjugated by France.
Hint: Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italian states, etc. all have their own desire to be independent
No shit upcoming hegemons face local obstacles. The Brits are the ones who consistenly assembled and funded alliances and coalitions to prevent hegemons from emerging. Their "finest hour" was destorying their own empire just to stick it to Germany. And even after WW2, they opposed German reunification, distanced themselves from the EU and eventually left it.
The spanish werent interested in becoming a french dominion either morons, they just picked a bourbon because they wanted to centralize similarly to what was done in France
That's why he was opposed by the provinces but not the castillans
Chinese Civil Wars usually aren't succession crises though. The rebels are completely unrelated to the royal dynasty and just want to become the new one.
The death of the Prophet Muhammad, because his successor was prevented from taking power and this cased rifts in Islam that are still present today.
An interesting one is the death of Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great. An impostor took the throne and ruled for quite a long time until Darius rose up and restored the empire.
>Anarchy at Samarra
Abbasid caliphs became beholden to their turkic slave soliders and most of their empire was lost to local warlords >five dynasties and ten kingdoms
After the fall of the Tang dynasty China was a again fractured into a series of warlord states. This was one of the shortest periods of disunion (60 years) but it had an outsized effect. Northern China suffered immensely while Southern China grew. It was around this time the South started to eclipse the north. The five dynasties in the north were a series of short lived dynasties that lasted an average of around a few years. They were humiliated by the Khitans of the Liao and one of them gave away the sixteen prefectures which were key to China's defence against the north. Once the Song Dynasty reunified China they attempted to regain the sixteen prefectures but lost to the Liao. The Song had a poor military record would be BTFO'd by a series of barbarians (Khitans and Tanguts, Jurchens, and Mongols). >Northern and Southern Courts
The emperor Go-Daigo toplled the Hojo regime (Kamakura Shogunate) and began to rule japan in his own right. His rule was a disaster and Ashikaga Takauji who betrayed the Hojo rose up in rebellion and capyured Kyoto, installed a new emperor, and founded the Ashikaga Shogunate. Go-Daigo escaped to the south in Yoshino and crwared his own court. There would be a six decade long civil war albeit the northern court(ashikaga) always dominated and eventually neutered the southern court within a few decades. After that it was just a matter of time
The anarchy at samarra was bad but it wouldn't make the list, it lasted for less than 9 years and from 870 to 908 the caliphs managed to retake most of the lands that they lost, and reduce the power of their turkic slaves and started replacing some of them with byzantine slaves, the real decline happened after the death of al muktafi, that era was plagued with aristocratic arab families fighting for power and influence, not mentioning the caliph being a child and the rise of the umayyads and fatimids. I guess the biggest outcome of the anarchy of samarra was how scared the image of the caliph became, people just never saw him the same again.
The entire Seljuk dynasty's history is just a series of succession wars. They conquered most of the middle east except egypt but then kept fracturing and fighting civil wars so that they were quickly reduced to Iran. After which they continued to have succession wars, were defeated by the pagan kara khitai which resulted in prester john stories travelling west, and then were conquered by their vassals the Khwarezmians who would expand their empire across central asia and iran but then would immediately face the Mongols before they could consolidate their gains
>TheEra of Fragmentationwas a period of disunity inTibetan historylasting from the death of theTibetan Empire's last emperor,Langdarma, in 842 untilDrogön Chögyal Phagpabecame theImperial Preceptorof the three provinces ofTibetin 1253, under theYuan dynasty
I know nothing about this but 5 fricking centuries and unification was forced by the mongols
Mormon Church after Joseph Smith's death >second in line was his (older) brother, Hyrum, who died with Joseph >third in line was his younger brother, Samuel, who died from a mysterious illness (suspected poison) not even a month after the death of Joseph and Hyrum >fourth in line was the youngest brother, William, never had his claim recognized >next in line was supposed to be Joseph's 11yo son (from his first wife), but there's a big clusterfrick because other wives are making political moves behind the scenes, remarrying to some of the 12 apostles that were appointed by Joseph before his death >apostles in Nauvoo make rules that Smith's children no longer had claim and only apostles would choose next president >next in line was supposed to be one of the church's 12 apostles, but, Young, leader of the apostles in Nauvoo (Church headquarters) colluded to deny any apostle that was outside Nauvoo at Smith's time death >nauvoo apostles hold kangaroo court to excommunicate and sun the traveling apostles that showed up to make claim, or argued that Joseph's children had claim >Young and his supporters organize marriages to balance political power (this is a big clusterfrick), Joseph's first wife and her kids are basically told to frick off, Young becomes president of LDS and shortly after begin LDS exodus to Utah
For a country?
>Charles II of Spain
>tries to leave his kingdom to a grandson of Louis XIV, on the assumption that only France would have the military strength to keep the Spanish empire together
>France has to fight all of Europe combined and in the ensuing compromise peace, it’s decided that Spain will lose the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, Menorca, Sardinia
>Philip IV the Fair of France
>three sons, but none of whom sire suitable heirs
>daughter who marries the king of France
>eventually leads to three claimants: Philip VI (selected by the French), Edward III (king of England claiming the throne through his French mother), and the King of Navarre (also claiming the throne through his mother, the granddaughter of Philip IV)
>leads to the Hundred Years’ War
daughter who marries the king of England*
>Feudal Japan
>Onin War and woman moment
>Vietnam messy rule under Hó dynasty
>Briefly lose Independence
>doubting charles' impeccable decision-making skills
War of Spanish Succession was a result of British insistence on instigating destruction and bloodshed in Europe to prevent a continental hegemon from emerging, even if it means turning Europe itself into a plaything between the US and the USSR
The tell tale sign of a chronically online moron IQfyposter: thinking that "le BONGZ!" were the only country in Europe with a vested interest in not being subjugated by France.
Hint: Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italian states, etc. all have their own desire to be independent
No shit upcoming hegemons face local obstacles. The Brits are the ones who consistenly assembled and funded alliances and coalitions to prevent hegemons from emerging. Their "finest hour" was destorying their own empire just to stick it to Germany. And even after WW2, they opposed German reunification, distanced themselves from the EU and eventually left it.
The spanish werent interested in becoming a french dominion either morons, they just picked a bourbon because they wanted to centralize similarly to what was done in France
That's why he was opposed by the provinces but not the castillans
Rome's are some of the messiest.
Ilkhanate after Abu Said's death. Contrary to the popular narrative there were many claimants but the Ilkhanate collapsed anyway
>What are the worst succession crises in history?
Virtually any civil war in China.
The casualties of neither the Spanish succession war or the Roman Empire even comes close to those of the Chinese civil wars.
Chinese Civil Wars usually aren't succession crises though. The rebels are completely unrelated to the royal dynasty and just want to become the new one.
The death of the Prophet Muhammad, because his successor was prevented from taking power and this cased rifts in Islam that are still present today.
An interesting one is the death of Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great. An impostor took the throne and ruled for quite a long time until Darius rose up and restored the empire.
The times of Troubles in Russia. Rurikids just couldnt breed and caused two decades of awfulness
The Seleucids spent the last century fighting over the diadem while their empire rapidly shrunk around them
>Anarchy at Samarra
Abbasid caliphs became beholden to their turkic slave soliders and most of their empire was lost to local warlords
>five dynasties and ten kingdoms
After the fall of the Tang dynasty China was a again fractured into a series of warlord states. This was one of the shortest periods of disunion (60 years) but it had an outsized effect. Northern China suffered immensely while Southern China grew. It was around this time the South started to eclipse the north. The five dynasties in the north were a series of short lived dynasties that lasted an average of around a few years. They were humiliated by the Khitans of the Liao and one of them gave away the sixteen prefectures which were key to China's defence against the north. Once the Song Dynasty reunified China they attempted to regain the sixteen prefectures but lost to the Liao. The Song had a poor military record would be BTFO'd by a series of barbarians (Khitans and Tanguts, Jurchens, and Mongols).
>Northern and Southern Courts
The emperor Go-Daigo toplled the Hojo regime (Kamakura Shogunate) and began to rule japan in his own right. His rule was a disaster and Ashikaga Takauji who betrayed the Hojo rose up in rebellion and capyured Kyoto, installed a new emperor, and founded the Ashikaga Shogunate. Go-Daigo escaped to the south in Yoshino and crwared his own court. There would be a six decade long civil war albeit the northern court(ashikaga) always dominated and eventually neutered the southern court within a few decades. After that it was just a matter of time
The anarchy at samarra was bad but it wouldn't make the list, it lasted for less than 9 years and from 870 to 908 the caliphs managed to retake most of the lands that they lost, and reduce the power of their turkic slaves and started replacing some of them with byzantine slaves, the real decline happened after the death of al muktafi, that era was plagued with aristocratic arab families fighting for power and influence, not mentioning the caliph being a child and the rise of the umayyads and fatimids. I guess the biggest outcome of the anarchy of samarra was how scared the image of the caliph became, people just never saw him the same again.
The entire Seljuk dynasty's history is just a series of succession wars. They conquered most of the middle east except egypt but then kept fracturing and fighting civil wars so that they were quickly reduced to Iran. After which they continued to have succession wars, were defeated by the pagan kara khitai which resulted in prester john stories travelling west, and then were conquered by their vassals the Khwarezmians who would expand their empire across central asia and iran but then would immediately face the Mongols before they could consolidate their gains
>TheEra of Fragmentationwas a period of disunity inTibetan historylasting from the death of theTibetan Empire's last emperor,Langdarma, in 842 untilDrogön Chögyal Phagpabecame theImperial Preceptorof the three provinces ofTibetin 1253, under theYuan dynasty
I know nothing about this but 5 fricking centuries and unification was forced by the mongols
On thst note does anyone have reccomendations of the history of tibet?
Scared Mandates has a good bit on Tibet and Mongol Buddhism
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28301990.html
*Sacred
Not exactly what i was looking for but thanks
> be Bolesław III
> stupidly divide your kingdom among your four sons
> they immediately attack each other
> 200 years of revolts and civil war
2020 Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden
Mormon Church after Joseph Smith's death
>second in line was his (older) brother, Hyrum, who died with Joseph
>third in line was his younger brother, Samuel, who died from a mysterious illness (suspected poison) not even a month after the death of Joseph and Hyrum
>fourth in line was the youngest brother, William, never had his claim recognized
>next in line was supposed to be Joseph's 11yo son (from his first wife), but there's a big clusterfrick because other wives are making political moves behind the scenes, remarrying to some of the 12 apostles that were appointed by Joseph before his death
>apostles in Nauvoo make rules that Smith's children no longer had claim and only apostles would choose next president
>next in line was supposed to be one of the church's 12 apostles, but, Young, leader of the apostles in Nauvoo (Church headquarters) colluded to deny any apostle that was outside Nauvoo at Smith's time death
>nauvoo apostles hold kangaroo court to excommunicate and sun the traveling apostles that showed up to make claim, or argued that Joseph's children had claim
>Young and his supporters organize marriages to balance political power (this is a big clusterfrick), Joseph's first wife and her kids are basically told to frick off, Young becomes president of LDS and shortly after begin LDS exodus to Utah
Nicholas II's successors didn't do squat.