France emerged as the dominant power on the continent, while the Holy Roman Empire began a long, slow decline into a loose collection of independent states.
The war ended with a series of treaties that fundamentally reshaped the world:
The war was brutal. It introduced "total war" tactics where armies lived off the land, seizing crops and burning villages.
The war began in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) when Protestant nobles, angry over the curtailing of their religious rights, tossed two Catholic royal officials out of a window in Prague Castle. Remarkably, they survived the 70-foot drop, but the act triggered a rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire. 2. From Religion to Politics
France emerged as the dominant power on the continent, while the Holy Roman Empire began a long, slow decline into a loose collection of independent states.
The war ended with a series of treaties that fundamentally reshaped the world: thirty-years-war
The war was brutal. It introduced "total war" tactics where armies lived off the land, seizing crops and burning villages. France emerged as the dominant power on the
The war began in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) when Protestant nobles, angry over the curtailing of their religious rights, tossed two Catholic royal officials out of a window in Prague Castle. Remarkably, they survived the 70-foot drop, but the act triggered a rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire. 2. From Religion to Politics they survived the 70-foot drop