Political Issues In The Thirty Years War

War, something the world has yet overcome. For years; life on earth have fought over religion, land, power and yet have reach a conclusion that can over come the obstacles each country has to face. Power, being the superior of something much greater than a small portion of the world is something that can overcome and peace. One can argue that the Thirty Years War was fought because of political issues, however the war was fought because of religious difference between countries of Europe. Causes of the war started because of religious matters, the Peace of Westphalia comes into place setting an example of overcoming the years of destruction , and the Resistance of Protestantism feuding with the Catholics, creating discrimination and almost
In war there’s always more than two sides bashing heads against one another, war has many angles and cracks in it, one reason can break into two more and the deeper the war goes the more discoveries are found. Going all the way back to the beginning of the war, the root of the war was behind of felicitous tolerance. (Simmons, 2016). War has always had a background of religion being one of the many key aspects of war even becoming and uprising, the constant idea of disagreement with someone who doesn’t share the same ideas as the other. Like many wars before Thirty Years War it was fought behind land, dynastic and religious reasons, all these factors are what contributed to the outbreak. (Thirty Years War, 2017). Thirty years war was one considered to be referred as a “religious war” because of its conflicts in relation of religions before and after the war. (Wilson, 2009). Having religious tolerance being a key development of the war is important because religion branches into many different areas, not being the only leading factor of the war either. A feud that was constant in the years of the war was the feud between Protestants and Catholics. Emperor Ferdinand was a leader who took it upon himself to equated Protestantism with disloyalty. (Darby, 2001). Then came Louis XIV king of France was was also another strong leader who’s goals became accomplished when he abolished the last Protestant rights in France
Treaties included many factors that were able to end conflict, external friendship, and reparations (Wilson, 2009). The Peace treaty changes the Emperors construction, however those who were involved in the religious groups like, Calvinists and Catholics did not take part. The treaty was able to be one of the solving contributions of the war connecting back to religion (Wilson, 2009). The foundation of the recovering stage was based off of the treaties, and gave hope for rebuilding the destruction the war left behind. The treaty had a significant influence on the history of Europe.. It gave full independence and sovereignty to the Holy Roman Empire (Foster, 2017). Establishing Switzerland and the Netherlands and the concessions were given to France. It gave a way for international system of sovereign status using its treaties giving imperial (Miller, 2008) The Peace of Westphalia couldn’t be described other than a series of treaties and arrangements that were able to repair some damage but not fully end the