Which of the following did the peace of augsburg accomplish? a. it set up the spanish inquisition to root out heresy. b. it ended the thirty years' war. c. it granted the netherlands independence from spain. d. it allowed german rulers to choose the religion of their states.

The Peace of Augsburg impermanent settlement, marked by Charles V in 1555, finished the Thirty Years' War, which was an arrangement of wars between German Lutherans and Catholics in the divided Holy Roman Empire somewhere in the range of 1618 and 1648.  

The settlement permitted sovereigns in the Holy Roman Empire to pick which religion would win in their areas: either Lutheranism or Catholicism. The individuals from the general public that declined to concur with sovereign's decision were given the chance to openly emigrate to various locales in which their coveted religion had been acknowledged.

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