Growth of States in Europe VI
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 25-05-18 21:57
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- Growth of States in Europe VI
- Thirty Years' War
- 8 Million fatalities
- Initially a religous war
- Wedgewood
- 'the outstanding example in European History of meaningless conflict'
- War was stated by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II who tried to impose uniformity amongst his Catholic subjects
- No real "winner" but there was no longer a chance of a Holy Roman take over
- Europe and the Thirty Years' War
- Great Powers were fighting on German soil, violence negatively affected certain areas
- France, Spain, Swede and Austria
- French forces attack towards East
- Context of Peace of Westphalia
- 194 states
- It took belligerents 6 months to work out logistics and administration of procedure
- took 3 weeks to organise signing ceremony
- It took longer since fighting carried on whilst peace was being negotiated
- Significance of Treaty of Westphalia
- International politics and resolution of future conflicts
- Religion
- 'Cuius regio, eius religio'
- Pragmatic solution to long-term warfare
- Change of territory and shifts in balance of power
- Why were so many different states involved in Peace of Westphalia?
- Empires? Different individual states changing hands
- All individual states (lots of German states)
- Why is the Peace of Westphalia so important in European history?
- It settles borders in a way quite similar to now allowing Germany to take shape
- Sets up a period of peace
- Keeping Holy Roman Empire running meant there was little chance of war
- it was a failing empire
- If you abolished the empire, what do you put in its place: North German Federation and South German Federation
- Why did it not bring lasting peace to Europe?
- Issue of Germany hadn't presented itself
- Papal Diplomacy being slow to change
- Italy and Spain
- Didn't solve French and Spanish disagreements
- Empires still existed so there would be competition
- e.g. British Empire and Ottoman Empire
- Thirty Years' War
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