Which of these statements best summarizes the outcome of the Thirty Years’ War?(1 point)

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Protestants and Catholics continued to control the same areas in Europe that they had at the beginning of this conflict.
Protestants and Catholics continued to control the same areas in Europe that they had at the beginning of this conflict.

European Catholics and Protestants lived in religious harmony after the end of this conflict.
European Catholics and Protestants lived in religious harmony after the end of this conflict.

Protestantism overtook Catholicism as the official religion in Italy and Spain.
Protestantism overtook Catholicism as the official religion in Italy and Spain.

Catholics regained control of Lutheran strongholds in the northern Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 1

The statement that best summarizes the outcome of the Thirty Years' War is:

Protestants and Catholics continued to control the same areas in Europe that they had at the beginning of this conflict.

This is accurate as the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the war in 1648, largely confirmed existing territorial boundaries and allowed for coexistence of Protestant and Catholic states, but did not result in significant changes to the control of religious areas.