The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years' War was a great power struggle between Catholics and Protestants of Europe. Countries became involved for not only religious reasons but also political and economic reasons. Warring factions among the Protestants and Calvinists brought upon more unrest within the Christian community and it was only inevitable that a religious war would soon break out. Firstly, the Council of Trent led to suspicions of Catholic conspiracy. Moreover, Ferdinand stripped the political freedom of Bohemia and the Second Defenestration of Prague sparked a new war, which lead to thirty years of destruction of towns and villages affecting not only people but European society too.
Broadsheets depicted mercenary armies of the warring countries razing