Summarize the Thirty Years' War, and the formation of central European states.
The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts/battles in European history. The war was mostly fought in what in present day Germany and at various ponits involved most of the countries of Europe this lasted from 1618–1648.
Initially the war was started largely as a religious battle between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although clashes over the politics and balance of power in the Empire played a significant role. The war then escalated into a social conflict involving most of the European powers. In this stage, the war became more a sequel of the Bourbon-Habsburg rivalry for European political eminence,and less specifically about religion.
Some of the results Results from the 30 years' war were:
*Peace of Westphalia
* Rise of the Bourbon dynasty
* Rise of the Swedish Empire
* Rise of the Dutch Republic
* Decentralization of the Holy Roman Empire
The “Thirty years war” was one of the most destructive wars in European history. The war was fought in what is now Germany. No single cause can accurately be described as the main reason for the fighting, at first the war was fought as a religious conflict, between Protestants and Catholics, disputes over the internal politics and balance of power within the Empire played a significant part too. Eventually the war became a general conflict involving most of the European powers. A major impact of the Thirty Years' War was the extensive destruction of entire regions. The Thirty Years' War was ended with the treaties of Osnabruck and Munster, part of the wider Peace of Westphalia.
The major powers of central Europe were the kingdom of Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire but none of them were very strong at that time. The economy of central Europe developed differently from that of Western Europe. In the west, serfs gain their freedom and moved to towns, and gained economic power because of the commercial revolution, and in central Europe it was the opposite.
by kimberly dominguez
Although the struggles that created it erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II, attempted to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains, and the Protestant nobles of both Bohemia and Austria rose up in rebellion. Ferdinand won after a five-year struggle. In 1625 King Christian IV of Denmark saw an opportunity to gain valuable territory in Germany to balance his earlier loss of Baltic provinces to Sweden. Christian's defeat and the Peace of Lubeck in 1629 finished Denmark as a European power, but Sweden's Gustav II Adolf, having ended a four-year war with Poland, invaded Germany and won many German princes to his anti-Roman Catholic, anti-imperial cause.Meanwhile the conflict widened, fueled by political ambitions of the various powers. Poland, having been drawn in as a Baltic power coveted by Sweden, pushed its own ambitions by attacking Russia and establishing a dictatorship in Moscow. In the heartland of Europe, three denominations vied for dominance: Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism. This resulted in a Gordian tangle of alliances as princes and prelates called in foreign powers to aid them. Overall, the struggle was between the Holy Roman Empire, which was Roman Catholic and Habsburg, and a network of Protestant towns and principalities that relied on the chief anti-Catholic powers of Sweden and the United Netherlands. A parallel struggle involved the rivalry of France with the Habsburgs of the empire and with the Habsburgs of Spain, who had been attempting to construct a cordon of anti-French alliances. By: Rebeca Evertz
The thirty years war (1618-1648) was one the most devastating conflict in Europe history, this war was fought in wats present day germany. The causes of this war were mainly religous conflcts by catholics and protestants, also the clash of politics and balance of power played a big role during the war.The war was ended with the Peace of Westphalia which also included:
The treaty of Osnabrück
The Treaty of Münster
Simoultaneously there was a struggle for spains throne between France and Spain. This was between the Haspburgs of france and the Haspburgs of Spain this struglle ended with the intervention of Cardinal Richeleu.(Ricardo Baio)
The Thirty Years' War was one of the most disastrous battles in European history fought in Germany. There were too many causes, so it can´t be said which was the primarily cause for the fight. For example it started as religious conflict between protestants and catholics.In the Holy Roman Empire, internal politics and balance of power was another cause. Then, this war involved european powers.A major impact of the Thirty Years' War was the extensive destruction of entire regions, Germany´s population decreased significantly by poverty, and diseases. The Thirty Years' War was ended with the treaties of Osnabrück and Münster, part of the wider Peace of Westphalia.
By: Kenny Fung
The thirty year war (1608-1648) was a conflict over religion -Catholics, protestans;calvisism, lutherians- and territory and for power among European rulig families . The war was fought on present day Germany. You can divided it between the Hapsburg triumpsh and Hapsburg defeats. This war devastated germany. The damages went from drasticals drop in population, trade and agriculture were disrupted and Germany´s economy was ruined. The war finally ended with the Peace of Westphalia. Now the idea of an Catholic empire was abandoned and recognized Europe as a group of equal.
The mayor power of central Europe were the kingdoms of Poland, The Holy Roman Empire, and The Ottoman Empire but none of them were strong enough in the mid-1600. From this point on, the economy of Central Europe would develop differently from the Western Europe. One of the reasons is that the landowning nobles help down the development of the middle-class townspeople by restriting the freedom of serfs and by blocking the devevelopment of strong king
BY: Vicnet Gomez
Minerva Espejo
The Thirty Years’ War was an incredibly destructive conflict in European history. It initially started as a dispute between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, but it then came to be with what was really concerning the ones in power. Rivalry took away the concern of religious differences and now focused the war for a balance of power. This war was mostly fought in what is now Germany, where it destructed entire regions. Anyhow, it lasted from 1618-1648 and ended with several treaties; the most notable one was the treaty of Osnabruck and Munster, part of the Peace of Westphalia. It’s true that The Thirty Years’ War brought a lot of destruction and the decentralization of the Holy Roman Empire but, it also gave chance to the rise of some powers like the Bourbon dynasty, the Swedish Empire and the Dutch Republic.
There were three main battles in the thirty year war. War of Polish Succession 1733-1739 was fought not in Poland but in Belgium, Lorraine, Lombardy, Naples and Sicily. The conflict began over Polish succession but ended in an attempt to partition Austria and ended with Treaty of Vienna 1736. War of Austrian Succession began in 1740 when Frederick the Great invaded Silesia. The event was precipitated when King Charles VI of Austria died in October 1740 leaving no son to succeed him. Charles had gove to great lengths to assure that his throne would go to Maria Theresa, his daughter. But Bavaria disagreed. During the internal conflict which followed, Frederick took Silesia. Frederick allied himself with Bavaria and invited France and Spain to take what ever they wanted from Austria. England allied with Austria because they, traditionally, not like France.
Peace was finally made in 1745 with the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. On the American continent, the French fort, Duquesne, on the Upper Ohio River near modern Pittsburgh, was attacked by George Washington. Meanwhile in Europe the conflict revolved around an attempt to take as much of Prussia from Frederick as possible. The conflilct ended with the Peace of Paris 1763 and the Treaty of Hubertsburg.
REBECA EVERTZ
