Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1613 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Catholic Decade, 1620 to 1629, and the Edict of Restitution
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The idea
From sixteen twenty Catholic armies won everywhere: Bohemia conquered at White Mountain, a witness name, the anchor's hundred thousand Protestants fled; Christian IV of Denmark crushed after sixteen twenty-five. The Edict of Restitution in sixteen twenty-nine demanded Church lands seized since the Reformation.
In practice
Lands held eighty years, ordered returned.
Where people slip
Restitution threatened every Protestant prince.
Your place on the trail
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