Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rikice-rikicen ya fara ne da ƙaramin Knights' Revolt (1522), wanda ya biyo bayan yaƙin Girman Manoman Jamus (1524<unk>1525) a cikin Roman Empire Mai Tsarki. Yaƙi ya ƙaru bayan da Cocin Katolika ya fara Counter-Reformation a shekara ta 1545 a kan ƙaruwar Furotesta. Rikicin ya ƙare a cikin Yaƙin Shekaru talatin, wanda ya lalata Jamus kuma ya kashe kashi ɗaya bisa uku na yawanta, yawan mutuwar sau biyu na Yaƙin Duniya na I. Zaman lafiya na Westphalia ya warware rikice-rikice ta hanyar amincewa da al'adun Kirista guda uku a cikin Roman Empire Mai Tsarki: Roman Katolika, Lutheranism da Calvinism. Kodayake shugabannin Turai da yawa sun yi rashin lafiya da zubar da jini ta 1648, an ci gaba da yaƙe-yaƙe na addini har zuwa 1710s, ciki har da Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639<unk>1651) a kan British Isles, da Savoyard-Waldensian wars (1655<unk>1690), da kuma Toggenburg War
(1712) a cikin yammacin Alps.