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You often hear people talk about the “Habsburg marriage strategy” used to consolidate their power- what was this strategy? Could any minor noble house have done what the Habsburgs did, or were they uniquely positioned to take advantage of Feudal Europe’s inheritance laws and found an empire?
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A friend of mine just told me that until the civil rights movement, black men having consensual relationships with white women was legally seen as assault, but any assault done to black women by any man wasn’t punished by law. Is there any validity to this? NSFW
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