"beginning at paris, the french soldiers and the roman catholic clergy fell upon the unarmed people, and blood flowed like a river throughout the entire country. men, women, and children fell in heaps before the mobs and the bloodthirsty troops."—françois dubois, saint bartholomew's day, 1592. the events described in this eyewitness account were the result of the a. thirty years' war. b. french persecution of huguenots. c. reign of terror. d. revocation of the edict of nantes.

A) Thirty years war

he Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague. Casualties were overwhelmingly and disproportionately inhabitants of the Holy Roman Empire, most of the rest being battle deaths from various foreign armies.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.