What was the Thirty Years War about?

Question

what was this war about really?

How did it get started?

What were the results?

Answer 1

It was about 30 years.

Answer 2

I would really recommend that you look up the Thirty Years War in some reliable source, or even look on the Internet at Wikipedia or some other resource.

For many of the protagonists, the war was "about" the struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, but there were also plenty of people involved who saw war as a good way to make a quick buck and/or generally improve their lot in life.

The starting point of the war was when (mostly Protestant) Bohemia rebelled against the Habsburgs and particularly the (very Catholic) Emperor Ferdinand. Over the course of time, various German princes and eventually other European powers chose sides.

Sweden and France probably came out ahead. Spain suffered. The possibility of a unified Germany was set back, but the Habsburg's Austrian territories became a more coherent and unified state. The horrors of the war led to a relatively peaceful period for most of the remainder of the 17th century.

Answer 3

I have been trying to discover exactly what it was about for a very long, I still don't really know. I know that it did not really go on continuously for that period but was a series of starts and stops. I know that the sides that started it were not the sides that ended it. I know that northwestern and central Europe were destroyed in a great part by it. The greatest losers were the young of military age, and the civilian populations whose lives were in the way. It deserves to be reckoned as about 1/2 a world war. Simply it was, as is often the way of these things, a war of religion and monarchical rights. Accurately it was much more than that. Start reading. There must be "Cliff Notes" someplace.

Answer 4

The war between the Catholic Countries against Lutheran Countries(also called Protestants) mainly in Germany and all over the Spanish Empire, in order to take control over a part of Germany, which belonged to Protestants Principates

Answer 5

As Dean says pretty comprehensibly but broadly as all wars throughout the ages religion is the root cause as was very much so in the 30 years war and later the uprising in this country

Answer 6

The 30 Years war was part of the religious wars of the Reformation between Catholics and Protestants and happened in Europe in the Early 17th Century...
It tore much of central Europe apart and was very bitter.
It was followed in England by the English Civil War.

Answer 7

it exchange into in actuality a combat between Protestants and Catholicis; all and sundry went to the destiny Germany to combat. For the Protestants, you had England, Netherlands, Sweden and Bohemia; mutually as on the Catholic element, you had Austria-Hungary, France, and probably Spain. I forget the right record; besides the undeniable fact that it exchange into in actuality 4 wars of seven-8 years each; whilst one set of combantants drained, 2 greater tag-teamed in.

Answer 8

The nations of Europe were set to go at each other again for the first time since the late 1500's, when there was a peace treaty signed over the wars of religion (Protestant vs. Catholic). The peace was to expire in 1620.

But in 1618, the throne of Bohemia fell vacant. According to feudal law, left over from the middle ages, the heir to the throne was the Austrian Emperor Matthias in Vienna. The nobles of Bohemia were to meet in Prague and acknowledge his right by electing him. But instead, they elected Frederick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, a German prince. Frederick accepted, went to Prague, and was crowned. He is called "the winter king," because he only lasted that winter before the Austrians threw him out. The Czechs of today regret the loss of that chance for independence.

Austrian delegates went to Prague to call the Bohemian nobles to their feudal duty. They all met on the second floor of a palace. The Bohemians literally threw the delegates out of a second-story window. Window is fenestra in Latin. The event is called the defenestration of Prague. That is a question on the SAT's.

In part, it was a war of Catholic vs. Protestant states. Lutheran king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden warred against Catholic Austria and Bavaria to protect Protestant German states. But Catholic France also warred against Catholic Austria to advance its interests in German territory. It was a combination of religion and politics. A lot of Germany was laid waste. The end was the Treaty of Utrecht of 1648.

Answer 9

The result was it was over,after 30 years.
How really gives a feckk!!

Answer 10

damn. sounds familiar. darn it global class!

okay i know it was in europe. i think it was in russia and probably had to do with world war 1 and the people of russia's dissatifaction with the government. oh here it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_years_war