Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Religious Wars and Westphalia
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The idea
The Little Ice Age's worst decades saw France's factions at war, Philip the Second losing the Dutch and the Armada in fifteen eighty-eight, and the Thirty Years' War from sixteen eighteen killing twenty to forty percent of the German lands.
In practice
Westphalia, sixteen forty-eight, emptying the Empire of meaning.
Where people slip
Nobody won, the anchor judges. Rulers turned to order and control: absolutism.
Your place on the trail
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