To the religious tensions that contributed to the Thirty Years' War were added the factor(s) of
A) foreign intervention.
B) widespread peasants' and workers' revolts.
C) invasion by papal troops.
D) the Turkish sieges of Vienna, Prague, and Augsburg.
E) dynastic rivalries and tensions between rulers.
Ans: A
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