History 2403E- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 105 pages long!)

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Study guide: the huguenots were french protestants who made up less then 10% of the. Religious wars and state building population but 40-50% of the nobility. The nobility became huguenots in order to demonstrate their independence from the catholic monarchy. This threatened the power of the french kings because they stood in the way of national unity and supported local authority: the st. bartholomew"s day massacre was a massacre of over 3,000. The result of this was that the civil wars continued to rage on and further weaken the central state. Protestants used the massacre as justification for the rebellion against the monarchy. Henry iv who became king of france was a politique himself. This influenced him to convert to catholicism, and tolerate. Protestantism in order to end the civil wars and keep france centralized and strong: one method philip ii of spain used to turn the country into a powerful.