 The Thurgau, which had been annexed in 1460, was also a condominium of the Confederacy.At its root, the peasant war of 1653 was caused by the rapidly changing economic circumstances after the end of the Thirty Years' War.The Swiss Confederacy had been spared from all belligerent action; the Swiss peasants generally had profited from the wartime economy as they had been able to export their agrarian products at higher prices than before.