Thirty Years' War quiz
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What Catholic power fought beside Protestant Sweden?
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Where did the war begin, by today's borders?
Answer: Czechia
Why: Prague was then the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, a Habsburg-ruled land of the Holy Roman Empire.
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What 75-kilo manuscript did Swedish troops take from Prague in 1648?
Answer: Codex Gigas
Why: Its nickname, the Devil's Bible, comes from a full-page portrait of Satan inside it.
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Which Magdeburg eyewitness of 1631 later tested a vacuum with horses?
Answer: Otto von Guericke
Why: In Magdeburg, sixteen horses, eight pulling on each side, could not drag his two airless copper hemispheres apart.
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Who died leading his army at Lützen in 1632?
Answer: Gustavus Adolphus
Why: Sweden still marks 6 November, the battle's date in its old calendar, as Gustavus Adolphus Day.
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Which two powers fought on until 1659 despite the 1648 peace?
Answer: France and Spain
Why: Their war ended with the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed on Pheasant Island, which both countries still share.
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What Protestant faith became legal in the Empire only in 1648?
Answer: Calvinism
Why: Lutheranism had been legal since the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, which had left Calvinists out.
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