Louis XIV and the clergy

When king Louis XIV came into power he no longer followed the Edict of Nantes.While he was in power he forced Protestants to convert back to Catholicism.Louis XIV even offered money to those who converted to Catholicism.King Louis XIV even sent troops to take over Protestant households as a way to force them to convert.He took some of the Church's revenues and the powers that the pope still had in France.Because of these new laws that King Louis XIV enforced many Protestants chose to emigrate to other countries.

30 Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was fought between the Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire.The war was caused by growing tension between the Catholics and the reformers of the Church.Because new denominations in Christianity were growing many people did not want to be led by the Catholic church.Many leaders also started to break away from the church in order to rule their country by themselves.Some of the results of the war are famine and the spread of disease throughout Europe.Many citizens were displaced from the battles that were fought throughout Europe.New techniques of fighting were invented too.Rapid firing were two parallel lines of soldiers where one line would fire while the other reloaded.