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What Did the 1648 Treaties Actually Accomplish? - Overlapping Authorities in the Holy Roman Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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We are often taught that the modern international system of sovereign states, clear borders, and non-interference was invented in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia. This episode explores why that tidy origin story is historically inaccurate and what the treaties actually accomplished. Exhausted diplomats in Münster and Osnabrück were not designing a new world order from scratch. They were trying to end the Thirty Years' War and stabilize a complex, layered political body known as the Holy…
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