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    The Thirty Years War: Causes‚ Issues‚ or Results The Thirty Years War was a series of European battles from 1618 to 1648‚ fought primarily in Germany. The Thirty Years war was one of the most devastating wars of the early modern periods. Ever since the Peace of Westphalia ended The Thirty YearsWar‚ the balance of political power among the countries of Europe has changed. In this paper I will show the main causes issues and results that came from the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years

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    French Wars of Religion: Result of a weak monarchy‚ fragile peace agreements‚ and the battle of social worlds The reason for the length of the French wars of religion was attributed to the power vacuum that opened up during the reign of the minor Charles IX‚ as the Catholic Guises battled for power between the Protestant factions‚ the Bourbons and the Chatillons. Because the king’s vulnerable regent‚ Catherine de’ Medici wanted to keep the peace in order to protect her son’s power

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    By the closing year of the 1600s‚ life in the German Rheinpfalz region of Europe was still in turmoil. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) had left the population reduced to such an extent it would not return to pre-war levels for nearly a century. The Nine Years War (1688-1697) left Heidelberg‚ the region’s capital‚ devastated as foreign armies marched across the territory leaving shortages of food and shelter. The government-controlled churches torn between the major faiths‚ Roman Catholic‚ Lutheran

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    the sixteenth and seventeenth century‚ Europe was plagued with long years of different religious wars that would affect the course of history thereafter. The Thirty YearsWar‚ the last and final religious war of its time period‚ came to be one of the most devastating conflicts in Europe. Religiously and politically‚ the Thirty YearsWar reconstructed European life and was a significant turning point in history‚ as many religions and countries fought each other in a struggle for both power and religious

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    The Thirty Year’s War in Europe occurred from 1618-1648 on the issue of clashing and freedom of religions. It was a lengthy war with devastating loses on all sides that only ended with the Treaty of Westphalia‚ 1648. France came out as an all-powerful force‚ Germany and the Netherlands became independent‚ and the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. The time of Absolutism (when one leader/monarchy has absolute power of their country) followed shortly after. The Thirty Year’s War led to an age of Absolutism

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    One often hears the lazy argument that "Religion" is responsible for Man’s wars‚ the assumption being that if we got rid of religion all would be peace and harmony. Presumably then‚ if all men abandoned the notion that they are spirits inhabiting a material body and conceived of themselves as mere animals fashioned by chance from mud our troubles would be over and we’d all be a lot happier. This is of course untrue and does not correspond with an observation of history‚ nor of present reality.

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    THE WAR ON RELIGION The decade long War on Terror and Islamic Extremism has given rise to an aggressive and activist Atheist movement here at home. Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaeda‚ Taliban‚ Islamic Jihad‚ Hamas‚ and others have apparently reinforced the atheistic belief that the problem is not terrorism‚ or even Islamic extremism‚ it is the belief in God and religion as a whole. Although‚ it should be noted that Atheist groups rarely openly attack Islam‚ which on the one hand‚ would not

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    Discuss the relationship between religion and politics in the French Wars of Religion Religion and politics are often kept separate for the sole reason that if one group controlled both‚ they would be far too powerful. In the French Wars of Religionreligion and politics were not kept separate resulting in a massive civil war throughout all of France. The power struggle originated between the Catholics and the Huguenots when Protestantism rapidly expanded in France and continued as both sides

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    Thirty YearsWar: Ernst von Mansfeld Ernst von Mansfeld was a German military commander in the Thirty Years War. Although he fought for the Protestant cause‚ Mansfeld was a Roman Catholic. He was considered one of the most dangerous opponent of the Catholic League. He was born in 1580 as the illegitimate son of Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort and Dorothea von Solms- Lich. In 1594 he served under Archduke Leopold. Then‚ in 1610 he joined Frederick V and the Protestant Union. At the age 36

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    international relations The Thirty YearsWar was the first Pan-European war of modern times‚ it was a conflict which started in Bohemia (Holy Roman Empire) and took place from 1618 to 1648‚ ending with the well-known Peace of Westphalia. This war started as a religious conflict between the Protestants and the Catholic Church in Germany‚ but latter on it developed into a Franco-Habsburg war involving most of the European continent and having a decisive impact on all the European states and nations

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