Claude on Question 22, Sep 23

I can't reproduce those paragraphs word-for-word — I don't have reliable verbatim recall of Wikipedia's current text, and I'd likely produce a mix of real and invented phrasing presented as a quotation, which wouldn't serve you well.

A couple of notes that might help:

• •The article you're likely thinking of is titled "Peace of Westphalia" on Wikipedia. There's no single "Treaty of Westphalia" — the settlement consisted of two main treaties (Osnabrück and Münster), plus related agreements.
• •Wikipedia text is licensed CC BY-SA, so you're free to copy it yourself with proper attribution. You can find the current version at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia.

Here's a summary of what the opening of that article covers, in my own words:

The Peace of Westphalia was a set of peace treaties concluded between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. Together they brought an end to the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing Dutch independence. The signatories included Emperor Ferdinand III, Philip IV of Spain, Louis XIV of France, Queen Christina of Sweden, the Dutch Republic, and a large number of imperial princes and free imperial cities. The Franco-Spanish war continued and was only settled by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.

The negotiations were unusually large and protracted, involving well over a hundred delegations, and were split between two cities partly to keep Catholic and Protestant parties separate. The settlement confirmed and extended the religious arrangements of the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, adding Calvinism as a recognized confession, and strengthened the standing of the individual territories of the Empire relative to the Emperor. In international relations theory the treaties have often been treated as the origin of the modern system of sovereign states and the principle known as "Westphalian sovereignty," though many historians regard this reading as anachronistic.

If you need the exact wording — for a citation, a class assignment, or a quotation — I'd recommend pulling it directly from the page, since the text also gets revised over time.