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| The aim of the Thirty Years' War was to regain the Catholic unity of Europe |
The peace treaties of Münster and Osnabrück, was one of the most interesting facts I learned about while reading. This was very interesting to me because it talked about everything that they had to go through before they decided that the war needed to be ended and to create a treaty in order to get matters resolved. It seems having to take things to a full on war, the Thirty Years’ War, to notice that there has to be some resolution takes everything to new levels because I do not think that it should have had to gone that far.
This was not only one huge war that was happening, there were multiple wars that were going on during this thirty year span of time. There was also the fact that over the years more treaties were created to do different things such as to ensure the stability of the European nation-state system. I think that it was a good idea to get everything resolved like this for the Europeans since the war that they had been fighting in before mainly consisted on Europeans. The first thing that the treaties did however was to end the looting and pillaging that was going on.
This would help to make sure that nothing like that war happened again. It also helped that every European state was recognized by every other state. I think that this was a good plan because this way, if something bad starts to happen again, the other states can have a part in helping to stop it before it progresses into something larger. The other states could also provide help if there was no other choice but to go to war again.
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| The Holy Roman Empire where the Thirty Years' War took place (outlined in red) |
With these treaties this could reveal that Germany is up for change for the sake of the people who are living there since the treaties, not only stopped to war, created outcomes that would help to benefit the people. One of these benefits was the political order that was created. By creating a political order I think it would help to keep the peace more so than before without one. Also by not letting the center have all of the power could reveal that it was giving some more power to the people of Germany and not only to the people who were more in charge.
I think that the peace treaties of Münster and Osnabrück was important because it helped to create the right amount of power for Europe so that everything could be taken under control and become more orderly. It was also very important because it brought the Peace of Westphalia and also political order which would include everyone. By creating these treaties many problems were resolved for the European states.
