1. Counter Reformation Religious Wars By: Craig Bartnicki and Stephen Altamirano

2. What Happened? Italian wars:
The Italian wars and conflicts in Italy started in 1494, shortly before Michelangelo sculpted his Pietà and Savonarola was executed, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. This began a series of wars in which France and Spain vied for control of the Italian peninsula. The fighting finally culminated in the sack of Rome by the Spaniard and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in The Italian war officially ended in the year 1559.
The Italian war basically began because King Charles invaded Italy which became the name the Sack of Rome which began series of battles. The religious wars were from 1494 through 1559.
The Italian wars took place in Italy. 
The outcome of this war is that Charles sacked Rome in 1527 and when he sacked Rome he forced the pope to come to terms and Francis gave up all the claims to Italy to Treaty of Cambria. Through the peace of cateau-cambresis the Italian wars ended.

3. What Happened? Peasants war:
The peasants war started when the peasants got fed up with all of the taxes and lack of power and made the decision to rebel. The peasants started the war but unfortunately they didn’t have the weapons and the man power to change anything so the Nobles responded by killing some 100,000 peasants.
 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was very determined to turn back the wave of Protestantism. In 1546 they began a war against the Lutheran princes of Germany. After many years of battles, enthusiasm for the war waned, and in 1555 the Peace of Augsburg was signed.
The peace of Augsburg allowed every prince to choose the religion that his subjects would practice. The only choices were Catholicism or Lutheranism. The subjects had no say in the choice.
The peasants war took place in Germany
It happened because the peasants were rebelling
The end result was 100,000 peasants were killed by the nobles in the war. 

4. What Happened? Religious war in France:
The wars in France were between protestants and the Roman Catholics
 The spread of Calvinism in France persuaded French ruler Catherine de Medici’s to show more tolerance for the Huguenots, which angered the powerful Roman Catholic Guise family. Its partisans massacred a Huguenots congregation at Vassy causing an uprising in provinces.
There was a peace compromise in the year 1576 which allowed the Huguenots freedom of worship. There was an uneasy peace that existed until the year 1584, when the Huguenot leader Henry of Navarre (who later became Henry IV) became heir to the French throne. This led to the War of the Three Henrys and later brought Spain to the aid the Roman Catholics. The wars ended with Henry’s embrace of Roman Catholicism and the religious toleration of the Huguenots.

5. Who was involved?
During the Italian Wars, many groups fought over who would get the power of the Italian Peninsula. All together the French (Charles VIII French Leader), the English, the Spanish (Charles V Holy Roman Emperor) and the Italians were involved in the Wars.
During the Peasant War, there was a conflict between German Peasants and German Nobles, this conflict was about how the peasants thought that the taxes were to high and they had a lack of power. In 1524 thousands of peasants around Germany invaded castles and monasteries. Martin Luther got involved with the War by saying that the peasants “rob and rage and act like mad dogs”, and he refused to help the peasants and instead sided with the Nobles.

6. Who was involved?
During the French Wars of Religion the French Huguenot were fighting the Catholics from 1562 to These wars ended when leader Henry of Navarre became Catholic, his change in religion led to political stability and the Catholics accepted him as King. The ending of the War was very important since it lead to the Henry’s Edict of Nantes in 1598 which allowed religious freedom to Protestants.

7. Conclusion
Religious Wars were not only done for power but it was done for change, some of the important outcomes from the Italian Wars, the Peasant War, and the French's Wars were ideas being brought from Italy to places around Europe, the encouragement of Social Equality, and the granting of Religious freedom to Protestants (Henry’s Edict of Nantes).

8. Works Cited
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