To what extent was the outbreak of the Thirty Years\' War caused by religious tensions?

The purpose of European annals mingled with 1500-1750 was filled with events and \ntendencies which to a large floor defined the afterwardsward history of the complete world. Maybe that is \nwhy this period is in like manner often called earliest modern history. Indeed, during this period the \nRenaissance concluded, advanced forms of science and philosophical system emerged and laid grounds for \nthe Enlightenment and for the port of the modern scientific methods, the great \ngeographic discoveries opened up a ingroup of new lands for exploration. However, on that point \nwas one to a greater extent development that took localize deep down this azoic modern period of European \nhistory and which would influence the future course of events maybe in the most(prenominal) profound \nway. This was the exit and expansion of the Protestant Reformation, a ruling form \nof companionable protest which off from a assay for reformation of ghostlike institutions, \nin itiated by Martin Luther, a professor of godliness at Wittenberg University in Saxony, into a \n component part that profoundly influenced semipolitical situation within the Holy papistical Empire (Asch, \n1997, p.188). maybe the most momentous outcome of the sacredly coloured tensions \n amidst adherents of the Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church, that ensued from the \nactual apparitional division within Germany, was represented by the devastating thirty Years \nWar of 1618-48. Indeed, it is estimated that up to one-third of the German population was \n helpless due to troops activities and ensuing diseases and famine. Historians see that the \npre-war population take was reached only in almost a century after the end of 30 Years \nWar. Economy of Germany was also in roughness due to the malign brought in by the Thirty \nYears War, so that the economic decline that already was world-shattering in the chip half \nof the sixteenth was further worsened. The well-off economies that some German towns had in \nthe new-made Middle Ages and in the beginning of the sixteenth century declined, and Germany was\n\n