{UAH} What lessons can Uganda can learn from Europe's thirty years' war?

The war was fought over political and religious control.  The consequences were many. 

1.       The peasants suffered extensively including the destruction of their crops that triggered famine.

2.       Forty percent of the people in rural areas lost their lives

3.       Thirty three percent of the population in cities lost their lives.

4.       Overall eight million people lost their lives.

Most of the fighting ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.  It resulted in the following:

1.  Recognition of the sovereignty of each German state. In all, some three hundred entities gained their sovereign rights.

2.  Each prince whether Catholic, Lutheran or Calvinist could determine the religious beliefs of their subjects.  Those who didn't accept migrated.

3.  The treaty recognized the independence of the Swiss confederacy and the Dutch republic.

4.  The bid of the Austian Habsburgs to dominate central Europe ended.

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