HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Total War, Proxy War, Habsburg Monarchy
Document Summary
Kings and princes acting on their best interest for reasons of state, but bringing the lives of their subjects into peril (mass slaughter) Peace of westphalia, ended the war: began introducing ideas that formed the 17th century. France would be the most power state. Concept of a general peace treaties and of collective security. Each prince was to determine the religion of his subjects. It worked for a while because it offered a temporary means of solving problems that were originally deemed unsolvable. War broke out in the kingdom of bohemia (1618). Religious in nature but had powerful political implications: the hapsburg empire was the result of very clever marriages. The holy roman empire (usually a hussite) was not only that, but also the king of bohemia and other places: 1617, rudolf"s cousin was a religious fanatic. Hapsburg attempted to create a generalized rule.
