The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars were the crucible in which some of the competing forces from an earlier age were consumed in the fire and others blended and transmuted into new compounds … the matrix of all that came after.109
Karen Armstrong
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars were the crucible in which some of the competing forces from an earlier age were consumed in the fire and others blended and transmuted into new compounds … the matrix of all that came after.109