Leading up to the War
What climate catastrophe began in 1300 and left much of Europe riddled with famine?
What is The Little Ice Age?
True or False. The Thirty Years War was a religious war.
What is True?
Who was winning the war for the first 13 years of the conflict?
What is the Imperial Forces (Catholics or Holy Roman Empire)?
True or false. The Imperial Forces won the war.
What is false?
True or False. Following the loss of the Imperial Forces, the Holy Roman Empire collapsed completely.
What is false?
Economic instability was endemic in Europe prior to the Thirty Years War's inception. What caused this economic instability?
What is Inflation?
This event officially started the war.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
What year did things start to change for the Protestant rebels?
What is 1631?
The Thirty Years War ended in what year?
What is 1648?
The Thirty Years War ushered in a new era. One that stressed logic, reason, doubt, and empiricism. What era was this?
What is the Enlightenment?
What movement during the 16th century impacted the Thirty Years War?
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Ferdinand II tried to impose what on the Protestant nobles of Bohemia?
What is religious absolutism?
Which country entered the war and joined the side of the Protestant rebels?
What is Sweden?
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War?
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
Where can we see direct effects of the era that was to follow the Thirty Years War?
What is modern medicine, law, populism, representative democracy, and the separation of church and state?
Name one possibility for the Little Ice Age's occurrence.
What is either volcanic activity, unusual earth orbital patterns, or cyclical changes in solar activity?
Name two reasons why religious freedom is worth fighting for.
What is it protects basic human rights (the right to speak, act, and live accordingly)?
Which battle was the Protestant rebels first major victory?
What is the Battle of Breitenfeld?
As a result of the treaty that ended the war, which Imperial country ascended to superpower status?
What is France?
Define Schmuck.
What is a fool or foolish behavior?
What about the Protestant Reformation was the most important factor leading up to the Thirty Year's War?
What is Christianity splintering?
The imperial forces and Protestant rebels were led by which two kings (Houses included)?
What is Ferdinand II of Habsburg and Frederick V of the Palatinate?
What percent of European combatants died in the war?
What is 20%?
As a result of the war, religious authority was challenged and the idea of a divine right to rule weakened greatly. Why?
What is the Holy Roman Empire - which saw itself as intermediaries between man and God - and therefore were not subject to earthly rule, lost an earthly war to "heretics" - demonstrating the Catholic Church was as corrupt as Martin Luther said 132 years ago?
Did the Thirty Years War resolve religious schism?
What is no, as more and more Christian sects began sprouting up in Europe and America, dissonance was sewn in the very fabric of monotheism and numerous religious wars would ensue not long after.