The Thirty Year War
The Thirty Years War is considered a pivotal event in Western European history. Its conclusion with the Treat of Westphalia is heralded as the start of the modern nation state and as such marks the beginning of the study of international law which since that time was based on the new political entity, the relations between independent, sovereign countries. In an important phenomenon of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that that concept of political organization is being seriously challenged even as it remains a rallying cry for former colonial peoples to demand a state of their own (from the South Sudanese to the Palestinians). The issue for us in this course are the following considerations:

Over what issues was this long conflict fought? (Usually cited as a religious war between Catholics and Protestants, it clearly had roots in a distressed political-economic system.)

How and where did it run its course? (In addition to a narrative, please attach to this question a short chronology of the war.)

What were the consequences of it? (The Epilogue of the book outlines the demographic, economic and political fall out of the fighting.)

Why has it become so important that it is used as the year which divides the teaching of Western Civilization between the ancient and the modern eras? (Think through what you have learned in this course and the events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Would the year 1500 be a better breaking point?)
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