1600s: The Thirty Years’ War rages in Europe from 1618 to 1648.
1930s-40s: World War II ravages Europe and the Pacific from 1939-45.
Today: There is no widespread warfare in the world. Global or continent-wide wars have given way to small pockets of geographically contained conflict such as the Persian Gulf War of the early-1990s.
1600s: The Thirty Years’ War begins as a con- flict of religious ideology, Catholic versus Protestant....
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