The Thirty Years War - A Brief History

The 30 years war was as massive an obviously very lengthy conflict, and different nations had different motivations for being involved in it. Many protestant clergy wanted the war to continue until there could be a decisive victory over catholicism. Others wanted it to continue just so that sweden could continue to collect additional war booty to potentially supplement ther money situation. But to christina, as long as the war went on, she could never really be in charge. War was pretty much exclusively a man's game, especially when it came to running the show. Ending the war would and did, put an end to one of their sources of power and gave christina more direct control over pretty much everything