ITS 142L Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Richard Strauss, Semperoper, Yalta Conference
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Princes out of this saxon houses were chosen to marry queens of other great european nations. The valentine"s split into 2 branches named after the princes. Ernestine dynasty in wittenburg: protected martin luther. Eventually converted to lutheran and allowed them to gain property from the. When the returning german people met the already established slavic population war broke out in the early middle ages. None of the polish dynasties managed to impose their own king, so there was always a contest. Ex: those in sweden were interested in taking the polish crowns. One problem: the polish people would never elect a lutheran king, so in. Sweden they converted to catholicism so that they could be elected king of poland. Same happened with the house of ventine: 2 princes were elected to the. Fortresses to protect dresden were built in the renaissance style. In the early 17th century the renaissance was spreading through europe.