Thirty years war

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Across
  1. 4. Soldiers who were paid to fight and often were very unloyal and very violent
  2. 6. A country that joined the war to be able to support the protestants and fought hard
  3. 8. A powerful Catholic family that had ruled the Holy Roman Empire
  4. 9. A religious group that supported the Holy Roman Empire and Spain
  5. 10. A word for a formal agreement to be able to end the fighting
  6. 12. A religious group that mainly fought against Catholic forces
  7. 15. Even though the Catholic this country had joined the protestants to be able to weaken the Habsurgs
Down
  1. 1. it is the act of throwing officials out of a window in Prague that helped start a war
  2. 2. He was the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor who had tried to shut down the protestant
  3. 3. What had happened to a lot of towns and farmland during the war
  4. 5. The first name of the Swedish king who led Protestant forces and died in battle
  5. 7. A group of states and or countries ruled by one leader like the Hole Roman____
  6. 11. A war started here when the Protestants had rebelled against the emperor
  7. 13. How many years the war lasted
  8. 14. The main reason the war started