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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by the thirty years war a name

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which greatly improved on the wars original title that ten

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thousand nine hundred and fifty days war Take a look

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This image right there Dark huh Well it was question

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The thirty years war began because of what and hear

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your potential answers Well remember that image We just showed

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you the one with a very diverse cast of unique

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and not at all the same looking people Yeah well

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those super cheery chaps are celebrating the signing of the

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end of the thirty years war We can only assume

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those air celebratory matching mustache is and celebratory matching blouses

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and celebratory matching faces of permanent indifference What a party

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But what was the actual cause of that war Was

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it the decreasing power of catholic rulers Of course not

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catholic rulers were doing His catholic rulers tended to do

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with the time and that was increasing their stranglehold over

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more or less every single thing that could be strangle

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Hold it strangle held ringel held it Whatever bottom line

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is they were strangling away And yes there was some

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religious tension going on in bohemia mostly because emperor matthias

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the protestant leader of bohemia was to be succeeded by

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archduke ferdinand second a catholic And yeah that made the

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protestant leaders of bohemia just a little bit peeved And

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while this definitely added some more spice to the already

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bubbling stew of religious tension it didn't actually caused the

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war and a ferdinand was the potatoes mathias was the

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carrots and bohemia was the leaks than calvinism was the

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big chunks of hearty beef because it was actually growing

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and getting stronger at the time definitely not declining And

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while this hearty beef expansion definitely added a new dimension

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to this confusing metaphorical stew it definitely did not cause

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the pot to boil over No the thing that truly

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caused this do to be too spicy or oil over

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or whatever it was it symbolizes the start of the

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war in this increasingly misguided analogy is fact a the

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catholic reformation Tensions were already growing between catholics and protestants

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and once the catholics got word of this whole protestant

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reformation thing going on they got nervous as a response

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They decided to do a reformation of their own And

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it was this response that really signaled that the two

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sides that they were at war with one another and

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so on The twenty third of may sixteen eighteen two

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hundred sixty two thousand eight hundred Our war began Good 00:02:29.353 --> [endTime] thing we're not in charge of naming things

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