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The hundred years war greatly impacted the course of world history. This war was marked as one of the biggest wars ever fought in history. Dated to go from 1337 to 1453, this war led to new weapons being created, which not only played a major role in this war, but in all of world history. The creation of these new weapons led to the end of an economic system known as Feudalism. The war also was a cause of religious conflicts in the Catholic church. Another major event that had happened during

Thirty Years War 1618-1648     The Thirty Years War brought a lot of devastation to much of Europe during the early seventeenth century. It was an instinctive conflict between religious views in link about political rule that brought most of Europe that began in 1618 and ended in 1648.  The Thirty Years War intrinsically was fought primarily within the Christian community about which denomination that should ruled the Christian empire within Europe; whether Catholics, Lutherans, Protestant, or Calvinists

There were two major, underlying causes of the Hundred Years’ War: the official and the actual. The official cause of the conflict was a discrepancy involving the right of succession of the French throne. At the death of King Charles IV, the closest male heir was the son of his sister, Isabella; that son being King Edward of England. Appalled at the idea of being ruled by an English king, the French nobility declared that Edward was ineligible for the crown because his right comes from his mother

Thirty Years’ War Kristen Gwilt HST 111. 11/16/15 The Thirty Years War, which involved multiple countries throughout central Europe, took place in 1618-1648. Although it initially began as a religious conflict between the Catholics and Protestants in Germany, it quickly expanded into a larger conflict over the thirst for power within all of these countries. This struggle was prolonged by the conflict by the rivalry with the French Bourbons and the Austro-Spanish Habsburgs. This war resulted

The Hundred Years’ War is the seventh longest war in history lasting one hundred and sixteen years in which there were 3.5 million deaths. The Hundred Years’ War was between France and England from 1337 to 1453 over the succession to the French throne. When Charles IV of France died without sons in 1328, his closest male relative was King Edward III of England. Isabella of France claimed the French throne for her son, but the French rejected it. Philip of Valois, first cousin of Charles IV, succeeded

The Thirty Years War was an incredibly important event that took place during the 17th century. It caused phenomenally high destruction rates throughout Europe, especially Germany. These battles that make up the Thirty Years Wars were extremely influential towards the European people and governments. The Thirty Years War seemed to have many political factors that fueled its beginning and continuation but the religious factors were more prominent and important to the progression and completion of

I. An Introduction to The Seven Years War Despite its transformation into what many historians consider to be the first global war, the Anglo-French Seven Years War had rather humble beginnings. That is, the war did not erupt simultaneously in all areas due to some incredibly catalytic event that sent the two great European powers into an inevitable conflict. Rather, Britain and France went to war over “the little things.” In spite of both France’s and England’s desires to remain defensive, minor

1. One of the major reasons to why the Hundred Years War began had to do with the control over Flanders. Though it was in French fief, they did not have full control over it. Both England and France wanted control over it, so it created tension between both countries. To add on to that, the English King wanted to be on the French Throne. This made the friction even worse and eventually led to the war. One of the advantaged that England had was a good transition from a feudal state to modern state

many years of strife between Catholics and Protestant Reformers, war broke out in the Holy Roman Empire in 1618. This long lasting conflict, known as the Thirty Years’ War, would not cease until the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The political, economic, and social causes had been intensifying since the Protestant Reformation and the Peace of Augsburg. With a nation divided vastly, in massive debt, and in continuous religious conflict, there was only one solution: war. The Thirty Years’ War was a

The Hundred Years War is well know battle from history that most people believe lasted one hundred years, however it actually lasted one hundred and sixteen years. This war was a conflict between France and England and lasted from 1337 to 1453. Each country went through many different reigns of kings during this time period, in fact each country had five different kings who reigned during the time period of the Hundred Years War. The war began in the country of Guienne in the year of 1337 over which