. European history : an outline of its development. t know how torule, and the nobles and leaders of all parties proved utterlyselfish and corrupt. 333. The Beginning of the Thirty Years War. — WhileFrance was torn with civil war, and Spain was exhaustingherself in efforts to conquer the revolted Netherlands andto overthrow Protestantism in western Europe, Germanywas slowly drifting toward a civil war, the most terriblein its effects of any known to civilized history. The immedi-ate successors of Charles V., Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II., § 333] Beginning of the TJiirty Years War 345 were li
. European history : an outline of its development. t know how torule, and the nobles and leaders of all parties proved utterlyselfish and corrupt. 333. The Beginning of the Thirty Years War. — WhileFrance was torn with civil war, and Spain was exhaustingherself in efforts to conquer the revolted Netherlands andto overthrow Protestantism in western Europe, Germanywas slowly drifting toward a civil war, the most terriblein its effects of any known to civilized history. The immedi-ate successors of Charles V., Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II., § 333] Beginning of the TJiirty Years War 345 were liberal-minded princes, and Protestantism made con-siderable advances even in the Austrian territories. Thelater emperors, especially Rudolf II. and Ferdinand II., wereentirely under the influence of the Jesuits, and determinedto restore Catholicism wherever possible. Each party inthe Empire had some reason to complain of the unfairnesswith which the other interpreted the terms of the peace ofAugsburg. The Protestants had managed, contrary to its.
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