{maketoc}The period immediately following the Thirty Years War saw the reality of that conflict hit home across Europe. Of course, the British Isles stayed away from that conflict, but that region had its own issues to address. From north to south, east to west, every region saw major changes that pointed to the future at the expense of the past<h2>Winners and Losers</h2><h3>France</h3><h3>England</h3><h3>Spain</h3><h3>Other Regions</h3><h2>Roots of the French Revolution</h2><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fronde">The Fronde</a> appeared as direct result of the Thirty Years War. This revolution among nobility helped Louis XIV cement his position and put in affect all the conditions that led to the French Revolution. Of course, the causes of the uprising numbers to the many, but historians almost universally agree that the circumstances leading to the French outbreak date back to the debt Louis XIV ran up during his reign. The Sun King's ability to use the nobles against one another left France in a position wherein no group could challenge the monarchy. At the same time the latter institution had few new ideas or few they could call on to generate them. <h2>The Age of Reason</h2><h2>How to Run a Government<h2><h2>Religion after the Peace</h2><h2> Taxes, Taxes, Taxes</h2><h2>Philosophy: A Rebirth</h2>Until the mid-seventeenth century philosophy could not move past Aristotle, Plato or the Church. The field changed dramatically, however, from Descartes forward. One big difference was the divorce of science from the realms of philosophy to its own independent field. This development fairly well let Philosophy live on its own starting with Hobbes, leading to Locke, Voltaire and Rousseau.  <h2>Uranus-Pluto Waves and Revolutions</h2>O