Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1616 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
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The idea
In sixteen forty-eight the exhausted sides negotiated the Peace of Westphalia by messages between Munster and Osnabruck, witness names. The Empire's central power shrank further; its states gained almost total autonomy; Augsburg's principle was reaffirmed.
In practice
Sample question ten: most of the fighting fell on Germany and Bohemia.
Where people slip
Catholicism gained anyway: Protestant Europe fell from half to a fifth, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
- 1617Counting the Cost: Population, Confession, Winners and Losers
- 1631Sequencing the Thirty Years' War's Four Phases
- 1632Reading a Map of Europe After Westphalia
- 16361560 to 1648: How Religious War and New Science Ended the Old Order
- 1717Sample Question Ten: Where the Thirty Years' War Was Fought
- 1722Join: Law From Hammurabi to Westphalia
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