Chapter 14: Europe at War, 1555-1648

Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

________ was economically destroyed and divided by war.

Hapsburgs

________ were powerful and were a threat to Protestantism and the free Dutch state.

Phillip III

________ declared war on the Dutch.

Poland

________ was the leading power of Europe in the 16th century.

German Catholics

There were tensions between the Dutch and the Spanish, Spanish and the French, ________ and German Protestants, Swedish and everyone in the Baltic Kingdom, and England and Spanish.

Phillip II

________ was a militant Catholic.