Question

what led the Europeans to fight the thirty year war
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Answer 1

Answer:

Causes of the Thirty Years' War

With Emperor Ferdinand II's ascension to head of state of the Holy Roman Empire in 1619, religious conflict began to foment. ... Still, the Holy Roman Empire may have controlled much of Europe at the time, though it was essentially a collection of semi-autonomous states or fiefdoms.

Answer 2

Answer:

With Emperor Ferdinand II's ascension to head of state of the Holy Roman Empire in 1619, religious conflict began to foment. ... Still, the Holy Roman Empire may have controlled much of Europe at the time, though it was essentially a collection of semi-autonomous states or fiefdoms.

Explanation:

1) Why did European countries begin to fight the Thirty Years War?

Though the struggles of the Thirty Years War erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II attempted to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains, and the Protestant nobles of both Bohemia and Austria rose up in rebellion.