5 Questions
What was the central issue in German society since the 1520s?
Religious tensions between Protestants and Catholics
What legal principle was upheld at the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War?
Cujus regio, eius religio (he who rules, his religion)
What did the Thirty Years' War ultimately do in relation to the longstanding problems in Germany?
Did little to resolve them
What did the legal formulations of the war enhance in German politics?
The tendency for territorial rulers to become more like absolutist princes
What was the status of Germany's political disunity after the Thirty Years' War?
Confirmed until the nineteenth century
Test your knowledge of the political and religious landscape of early-modern Germany, which remained a loose confederation of semi-autonomous states and was marked by deep fissures due to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Explore the controversies over religion that persisted in the early seventeenth century.
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