The unprecedented devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War was due to
A) new weapons of mass destruction.
B) earthquakes and hurricanes as well as fighting.
C) new military tactics as well as siege warfare.
D) decisions of the princes to exterminate the peasants.
E) mercenary troops who put their own personal advancement ahead of loyalty to their princes.
Ans: C
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