HIS103Y1 Lecture : Summer 2011
Document Summary
treaty of westphalia - setting up what a treaty should look like. make sure that no similar conflict would ever emerge secularization of international relations - pope could no longer dictate which way the state and international relations could do - what policy to follow. Spain and austria emerged as separate states - they couldn"t rule as pope. Treaty of pyrenees - in general it did not gain much during the war of evolution turned against him in triple alliance - january 1668 signed peace treaty of aix-la-chapelle but then wanted to avenge dutch humiliation. he wanted to destroy them economic reasons for war. they were the most financially stable economy. yet most of the european trade was in dutch hands. they already had a stock exchange - the price they set was the basis of other state prices. 8 000 - 9 000 ships that controlled world trade.
