Which of the following did the Peace of Augsburg accomplish?

Question

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• It set up the Spanish Inquisition to root out heresy.
• It ended the Thirty Years' War.
• It granted the Netherlands independence from Spain.
• It allowed German rulers to choose the religion of their states.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: It allowed German rulers to choose the religion of their states.

The Peace of Augsburg, signed in 1555, allowed rulers in the Holy Roman Empire to choose between Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism as the official religion of their territories.