Question

What was the cause of the 30 years’ war and what was the result of it? Analyze why religion often causes wars throughout history. Support your analysis.

Answer 1

Although the struggles that created it erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II, in his role as king of Bohemia, attempted to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains, and the Protestant nobles of both Bohemia and Austria