Habsburg-Valois wars (jan 1, 1494 – nov 30, 1559)
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Italy = international candy; subject to decades of fighting from Germany (Habsburg) and France (Valois) over Italian territory | EFFECT: made it hard to unify city states / est common foreign policy --> italy wasnt unified UNTIL 1870
parallel conflict: austrian house of habsburg had inherited county of burgundy (md eastern france) through marriages in late 1400s, and france was pissed bc they viewed it as theirs.
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