Europe maintained unity after the Roman Empire. 1 through The power of the Papacy and the Christian faith, and 2 Through Feudalism because even though it caused fractures in regions it offered a clear power structure that allowed Strong nations to bring their weaker neighbors under their direct control.
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The Commercial Revolution lead many feudal and local entities to be diminished or disappeared entirely, but some reinvented themselves to become absolutist monarchies and national states. This violent process contributed to the Wars of Religion.
This culminated in the Thirty Years War (1618–48), within the Holy Roman Empire between German Protestants and their allies (Sweden, Denmark, France) and the Holy Roman Emperor and his Habsburg allies. It began as a religious war, but ended as a struggle for national superiority.
The outbreak of war in europe
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