Spain suffered from internal revolts and years of civil war. Danish military losses lead to a constitutional crisis. The people of France had heavy taxes levied. Parts of Germany were completely devastated. Even after the end of the Thirty Years’ War the new practice of having large standing armies was an expense that the lower classes would have to bare. In conclusion, the biggest cause of the Thirty Years’ War was one man, Ferdinand II. As King of Bohemia and again as Holy Roman Emperor he took actions of a personal nature from his Jesuit education that violated the sovereignty and religious freedom of his subjects by claiming it was his god given right and that he had to answer to no man. This created a conflict on such a grand scale that it forced early 17th century Europe to look beyond religious differences and find secular, dynastic-nationalist considerations that were more important. We also find medieval warfare was
Spain suffered from internal revolts and years of civil war. Danish military losses lead to a constitutional crisis. The people of France had heavy taxes levied. Parts of Germany were completely devastated. Even after the end of the Thirty Years’ War the new practice of having large standing armies was an expense that the lower classes would have to bare. In conclusion, the biggest cause of the Thirty Years’ War was one man, Ferdinand II. As King of Bohemia and again as Holy Roman Emperor he took actions of a personal nature from his Jesuit education that violated the sovereignty and religious freedom of his subjects by claiming it was his god given right and that he had to answer to no man. This created a conflict on such a grand scale that it forced early 17th century Europe to look beyond religious differences and find secular, dynastic-nationalist considerations that were more important. We also find medieval warfare was