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History 321: State and Society in Early Modern Europe: The Thirty Years War. Consult maps on Ottoman Empire Habsburg-Ottoman Frontier Austrian Empire Spanish Road Savoy and environs, 1627 Dutch Revolt. What do we need to know about early modern warfare?. Three “arms” of an army - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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History 321: State and Society in Early Modern Europe:
The Thirty Years War
Consult maps on Ottoman Empire Habsburg-Ottoman Frontier Austrian Empire Spanish Road Savoy and environs, 1627 Dutch Revolt
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What do we need to know about early modern warfare?
Three “arms” of an army1. Artillery2. Infantry3. Cavalry
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What do we need to know about early modern warfare?
Weapons The essential weaponry used in the Thirty
Years War already existed by 1590. Artillery: canon proper, culverin,
falconet, mortar Infantry: pike, firearms (musket,
arquebus) Cavalry: lance, sword, firearms
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What do we need to know about early modern warfare?
military revolution: Wilson’s point Formation
tercio, battalion (infantry) Movement
countermarch (infantry) caracole (calvary)
Tactics Organization
regiment (colonel) company (captain)
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What was the significance of the Long Turkish War (1593-
1606)? The “Turkish menace”
the “superpower of the early modern world” (p. 76)
2.3 M sq. km.; 22 M inhabitants over 3 continents
“the scourge of God” (p. 76)
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What was the significance of the Long Turkish War (1593-
1606)?A struggle over a frontier Hungary Transylvania Moldavia Wallachia
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What was the significance of the Long Turkish War (1593-
1606)? Transylvania
Torda Agreement (1568) military challenges: terrain, supply lines,
fighting season Military Frontier
50 km deep funded by Reichstag (22 M florins x 8: 1530-
1582) local organization of defence in large sections
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What was the significance of the Long Turkish War (1593-
1606)? Warfare
“sieges and skirmishes” (p. 97) The battle for Transylvania: Habsburg success (1600) pyrrhic victory: Hungarian losses Bocskai Revolt (1604-1606)
István Bocskai (Calvinist): “from loyal servant to rebel leader” (p. 101)
conquest of Transylvania Treaty of Vienna (1606): toleration for Lutheran and
Calvinist nobles in Hungary and Transylvania military defeat of Habsburg enforcement of
Catholicism
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What was the significance of the Long Turkish War (1593-
1606)? Treaty of Zsitva Török (1606)
Emperor and Sultan as equals an end to Habsburg tributes twenty year truce (confirmed, 1615; renewed:
1627, 1642, 1664) Consequences for Thirty Years War
Ottoman Empire rise of European commanders (pro-Habsburg:
Tilly, Wallenstein; anti-Habsburg: Mansfeld) redeployment of Habsburg forces
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What affect did the Brothers’ Quarrel have on Habsburg
rule? Rudolf II vs. Matthias
1607: Matthias gains control of Hungary. 1608: Moravia acknowledges rule of Matthias
in exchange for promise of toleration 1609: Inner Austria: Matthias yields to
demands of Baron Tschernembl (p. 112) Religious toleration wrung from Rudolf
Bohemia, Count Thurn; Letter of Majesty, 1609 Silesia, Letter of Majesty, 1609
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What affect did the Brothers’ Quarrel have on Habsburg
rule? Consequences
for Protestants: “The radicals were victims of their own success” (p. 113).
for Habsburgs loss of combined support after the Turkish
War crumbling of authority in Habsburg Austria a fragile monarchy
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Sourcebook, doc. 81. By which instrument did Archduke Charles
grant privileges to the “professors of the Gospell” (p. 23)? Give its name and the year in which it was issued. We have already learned this. Who were the “professors”?
2. Who issued this document?3. On what basis does the document formulate
its complaints?4. What is at stake in the complaints?5. To what process (about which we have
already learned) do the complaints witness?
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Sourcebook, doc. 86. Read the document as a political
document. What specific political language can you find in it? What does the document tell us about the actual and ideal relationship between state and society?
7. Does this document help or hinder Wilson’s argument?
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Pax Hispanica The Spanish Monarchy The Dutch Revolt, 1568-1609 The Spanish Road Spanish Peace-making
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of the Thirty Years War? Spain
demography domestic economy global economy imperial reputation / mission
“…what gave Spain its sense of mission was a defence of Catholicism that became fused with national identity” (p. 124)
association with Rome (p. 125)
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of the Thirty Years War? Spain at war and at peace
Dutch Revolt (1568-1609) Spanish Road French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) Treaty of Vervins (1598) Twelve Years Truce (1609)
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of the Thirty Years War?
Dutch Revolt Army of Flanders
(61,000) Duke of Parma Flanders school warfare siege of Ostend (1601-
1604) Ambrogio di Spinola composition of Army (pp.
132-33
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of the Thirty Years War?
Dutch Republic demography economy society politics Maurice of Nassau armaments industry
(p. 137)
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of the Thirty Years
War? Dutch military reforms
Justus Lipsius and the disciplined society Dutch drill
only necessary movement order self-discipline military culture of subordination
Influence fighting for the Dutch territorial defence system: militia payment of soldiers
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to the history of
the Thirty Years War? Spanish Road
Dutch Revolt French Wars of Religion Lorraine and Savoy
Treaty of Lyon (1601): France and Savoy
Grésin route closed, 1609
Swiss mountain passes Valtellina
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How are Spain’s conflicts relevant to
the history of the Thirty Years War?
Spanish peacemaking Belgian autonomy Twelve Years Truce,
1609 Savoy and Mantua
Peace of Asti (1615) Treaty of Pavia (1617)
“…there was nothing to suggest a major war was inevitable” (p. 167).
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How is 1609 a significant year for the Thirty Years War?
Letters of Majesty Twelve Years Truce