Peace Of Augsburg

The effect of the treaty was to establish official , should intend leaving their homes with their wives and children in order to settle in another, they shall be hindered neither in the sale of their estates after due payment of the local taxes nor injured in their honour.")

Although the Peace of Augsburg was moderately successful in relieving tension in the empire and increasing tolerance, it left important things undone. Neither the in 1648 .

The intolerance towards Calvinists caused them to take desperate measures that led to the Thirty Years War . One of the more notable measures was the Second Defenestration Of Prague ( 1617 ) in which two representatives of fiercely Catholic Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor were thrown out of a castle window in Prague . This eventually led to more involved conflict between Protestants and Catholics.

By aligning religious divisions with political divisions, the Peace of Augsburg fixed the patchwork of states that characterized Germany into the 19th Century . Some Historian s argue that this late unification as a nation-state led to the extreme German Nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, and thus indirectly to World War I and World War II .

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