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Some things she did as a ruler:
Rebuild a military
Started some education reforms
Centralize Government
Reformed tax codes
Expelled Jews from some of their lands -
To be the ruler she had to marry someone, and so she did.
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Her raised to power made the Austria war of Succession (1740-1748)
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German population decreased 30%, 50% of males died, diseases, femine, and expulsion decreased the population another 30%
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Peace of Westphalia
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1/3 of all Germany was destroyed
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Ferdinand send Catholics nobles to the mostly Protestant city of Prague to say that everyone should turn Catholic.
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The Protestant responded by tossing the nobles out of the window.
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Massive death and a "dark age" that cost 30 years of destruction.
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Charles IV don't have any son, so there is none one to take the throne. Just a girl: Maria Theresa