1. Hapsburg Monarchy
The European Political arena in 1500s to 1650 was full of religious, political and domination wars. At the beginning of the 1500's Spain was one of the most powerful, influential nations in Europe. The Spanish had colonies in South America ( Mexico) and they supplied the Hapsburg Empire with gold and silver. The Hapsburg Empire was situated in Spain, Austria, parts of Netherlands and held a lot of influence in MittleEuropa . The Hapsburg's had the largest, most technologically advanced , well equipped standing army in all of Europe. The Spanish were economically powerful and most importantly they were hard-core Catholics. .
At the beginning of the 1500's France was a Protestant nation, which had a mediocre army and medium economy. The French Protestants were called Huguenots. France was military and economically weaker than Catholic Spain. The French resented being under Spanish influence and this resentment led to a series of wars and confrontations between the two countries. .
The English were largely an isolated community who were busy consolidating their power while the French and Spanish fought for control of northern Italy. The English were Anglican and would be sympathetic towards their fellow Protestants in Europe when the drums of war would begin to beat. .
MittleEuropa was a piece of land where the north was Protestant and the south was Catholic. This land was at a constant state of "civil war" and it would be this place, which would draw the central European powers into a serious of bloody wars. .
The Catholic Church in that time had a lot of influence in Catholic nations. The Pope was the head of the Church and he was suppose to be " advisor" to the Holy Roman Emperor. .
The Pope was very well skilled at "flaming the fires of Catholic intolerance" towards .
The Holy Roman Emperor who in turn would lead religious and political wars against Protestants. .
The Netherlands were under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire but there were a series of uprisings and revolts in Netherlands.
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Archduchess Maria Theresa was the first female Hapsburg ruler and she lived up to her illustrious family name by holding her own on the international court and by improving the empire that she inherited. ... She became the first Hapsburg ruler because of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 which her father drew up ensuring European recognition of the indivisibility of the Hapsburg lands and the right of his daughters to inherit (Crankshaw: 11-12). ... But the Hapsburg Empire, on the brink of extinction before this war, miraculously survived as a concept and matured as a power, it was stronger a...
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The Catholics, who were broken up into two different powerful dynasties, the French Bourbons and the Austrian-Spanish Hapsburgs, battled each other in addition to the Protestants. The Hapsburg Empire was demolished in the 1790's and France became the leading Catholic religion. ...
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