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What if the 12 years truce was expanded by 8 more years? Phillip the IV and Olivares didn't have time to apply any reform as they started hostilities inmediatly after Phillip was crown king.Olivares also wrote his famous manifest in 1624 in he was planing on using brute force to abolish regional laws in Catalonia,Valencia,Mallorca,Aragon,Portugal,Naples,Sicily and Flandes to create a centralize monarchy.
This would have also left more room to the Dutch to keep expanding freely in south east asia as the truce stipulated and more time to consolidate their independence
Do you think the fate of the 30 years war and all the second half of the XVII century could have been changed by just 8 more years of peace?
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