POL 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dawes Plan, Corn Laws, Maginot Line

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

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The thirty years war was a result of religious fragmentation and the growing autonomy of secular european leaders. It was a catastrophic conflict that wipes out more than one-third of europe"s populatio(cid:374); (cid:374)earl(cid:455) 8 million people died from the devastation it caused. It was originally sparked by religious conflict between catholics and protestants within the. German lands of the holy roman empire and the revolt of the protestant estates of bohemia agai(cid:374)st prussia"s ferdi(cid:374)a(cid:374)d ii. The idea that political legitimacy could derive from secular legal authority rather than from divine sanction paved the way for the development of constitutional government. Trade and colonialism were strong forces for globalization in asia, africa, and the americas. Fragmentation was occurring in the political center of the newly emerging european system. During the eighteenth century, at no point did fewer than four greater powers compete against one another.