Witch Trials And Wars About Religion In The 1600s

Social: 1600s

During the 1600s, there were plenty of witch trials and wars regarding religion.

In the 1600s, there was a new thing going on. In Europe, people were hunting witches, whether they were men or women. Usually, the ones that were victims, falsely accused were women, for doing witchcraft. The so-called witches would get tortured, harshly, until they said that they said that they were witches. Besides being tortured as a punishment, there were times, where these people would get thrown in jail, killed, and be exiled from a certain place. In the mid- 1600s, outside of Europe, in the American colonies, they had the same punishments towards people who’d get blamed for being a witch.

The Thirty Years War in 1618, began mainly because of religious problems. This was a war between the Catholic religion and the Protestant religion of Europe in the breaking of the Holy Roman Empire. Socially, this war hurt the working class. Since there needed to be a great amount of soldiers, it was necessary to have the money. To get the money, there only solution was to tax the citizens of the states to pay for the war.During the Thirty Years War, agricultural making

There were countries that adopted the Calvinists beliefs, but didn’t really use it to worship God. After 1620, Calvinists refused the belief of the Roman Catholic Church, saying that the pope has full power. The Calvinists had a belief based on predestination. It was basically a belief that God decided who would be saved and who would be cursed. They had the urge to find out who was the chosen one.

When the first English Catholics came to Maryland in 1630, one of the bases of the Church in the United States was built. In Maryland and British colonies before the Revolution, the rank of Catholicism would vary from allowing it to forbidding it in the area. This was the reason for having very little, limited, and dispersed