HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Seven Years War
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Thirty Years War
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Livonian War
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Russo-Turkish War
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Thirty Years’ War was a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe. It remains one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history, with more than 8 million casualties resulting from military battles as well as from the famine and disease caused by the conflict.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Thirty Years War began as a religious war, fought between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany. It developed into a political struggle between the Catholic Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire (Austria, most of the German princes and occasionally Spain).
Detailed explanation-3: -Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, when it ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the map of Europe had been irrevocably changed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The major conflicts in the Thirty Years’ War revolved around religion, power among the royal families, and territory. There was a competition for followers between the Lutheran and Catholic churches, and Calvinism was spreading through Europe.
Detailed explanation-5: -Perceived imbalance of power in the region. Resentment of the Habsburg Dynasty and their control of commerce. Weakening of the power of the Holy Roman Emperor. Commercial Interests in the Region. Religious dissention. 11-Aug-2022