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==Early Modern period==

==Early Modern period==

[[Image:Dürer Martirio de 10000 cristianos we.jpg|thumb|Martyrdom of 10,000 Christians by [[Albrecht Dürer]]]]

[[Image:Dürer Martirio de 10000 cristianos we.jpg|thumb|350px|Martyrdom of 10,000 Christians by [[Albrecht Dürer]]]]

In 1517, [[Martin Luther]] wrote his [[The 95 Theses|95 Theses]] questioning the [[Roman Catholic Church]], an act which began the [[Protestant Reformation]]. A separate [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church was acknowledged as the new sanctioned religion in many states of Germany in 1530. Religious conflicts known as the [[Thirty Years' War]] pitted Protestant German states against Catholic ones, and devastated the German-speaking lands. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died. The [[Peace of Westphalia]] (1648) ended religious warfare in Germany, but the empire was further diminished in importance as numerous independent principalities conttrolled their own affairs. From 1740 onwards, the dualism between the Austrian [[Habsburg Monarchy]] and the Kingdom of [[Prussia]] dominated German history. In 1806, the Empire was dissolved by [[Napoleon]].  

In 1517, [[Martin Luther]] wrote his [[The 95 Theses|95 Theses]] questioning the [[Roman Catholic Church]], an act which began the [[Protestant Reformation]]. A separate [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church was acknowledged as the new sanctioned religion in many states of Germany in 1530.  

 

Religious conflicts known as the [[Thirty Years' War]] pitted Protestant German states against Catholic ones, and devastated the German-speaking lands. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died. The [[Peace of Westphalia]] (1648) ended religious warfare in Germany, but the empire was further diminished in importance as numerous independent principalities conttrolled their own affairs.  

 

From 1740 onwards, the dualism between the Austrian [[Habsburg Monarchy]] and the Kingdom of [[Prussia]] dominated German history. In 1806, the Empire was dissolved by [[Napoleon]].  

* see [[Martin Luther]]

* see [[Martin Luther]]