Book Questions: The Thirty Years War Over what issues was this long conflict fought? (Usually cited as a religious war between Catholics and Protestants, it clearly had roots in a distressed...

Book Questions: The Thirty Years War

Over what issues was this long conflict fought? (Usually cited as a religious war between Catholics and Protestants, it clearly had roots in a distressed political-economic system)

How and where did it run its course? (In addition to a narrative, please attach to this question a short chronology of the war)

What were the consequences of it?

Why has it become so important that it is used as the year which divides the teaching of Western Civilization between the ancient and the modern eras? (Think through what you have learned in this course and the events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Would the year 1500 be a better breaking point?)