SYLLABUS AP European History Mr.Johnston

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1 SYLLABUS AP European History Mr.Johnston Course Bibliography Textbook: McKay, John, Bennett Hill, and John Buckler. A History of Western Society, (Fifth Edition) Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1995 Main Assignments Terms-Students will write the about the major events, people, and movements of each chapter of study. These are completed in paragraph form and cover the important who, when, where, what, and why it was or still is important. Students will also complete a relevant Timeline for each chapter s terms. Maps will also be provided and a list of important places will be completed and returned with the some of the chapter s terms. Papers-All the major papers are listed throughout the course syllabus. Prompts after every chapter, students construct a thesis to a Historical prompt dealing with the recent topics of study. In class discussions follow. Document Based Questions (DBQ)- Students will complete a take-home DBQ at least four times throughout the year. There will more out of class if deemed necessary. Several DBQ s are also done throughout the year as in-class assignments. Primary Source Readings-Students will analyze primary sources throughout the year during in class discussions. Summer Readings Chapter 8, 9, and 10 from McKay. Ch 8-10 Reading notes, terms, and maps due first day. Quiz on the summer assignment first day back. First Semester Course Outline Introduction/Development to the Middle Ages Introduction: Course description The development of the Carolingian state and the resulting breakup and its role in the development of medieval feudalism. Examination of the revival of Europe and the establishment of a relatively stable political environment. A study of the causes of church reform in the 11 th and 12 th centuries and the

2 corresponding role of monasticism in that reform. A look at the division of society in the High Middle Ages and the nature of the feudal society. Readings: McKay Chapters 8, 9, and 10 Naylor (Vol. One) pp (Charlemagne and Harun AL-Rashid) Terms/Timeline: See terms handout Video: Medieval Lives and a scene from Monty Python s Search for the Holy Grail Primary Source Reading-Pope Urban s appeal at Clermont. Test: McKay, Chapters 8, 9 and 10 Middle Ages: Creativity and vitality of the High Middle Ages and subsequent Crisis The establishment of proto-modern states in the Kingdoms of England, France and Germany and significance of the Normans, Phillip II. The development in Germany and the revival of commerce, growth in towns and cities, and initial appearance of universities. The impact of the Black Death in Europe and the role of Dante, Chaucer, and Villon in the use of the vernacular in language and literature. Factors which lead to the demise of the later medieval Catholic Church. Readings: McKay, Chapters 11 and 12. Terms/Timeline Chapter 11; Henry II, Doomsday book, William the Conqueror, Thomas Becket, Sovereignty. Video clip-the Bayeux Tapestry Terms/Timeline Chapter 12: 100 years war, Joan of Arc, Babylonian captivity, Edward III, Conciliar movement, Nationalism, Great Schism. Handout-Account of Becket s Assassination Test: Chapters 11 and 12 Renasissance/Humanism/Rise of New Monarchs The meaning of Renaissance, the significant characteristics of the Italian and Northern Renaissance and the resulting impact on politics, the

3 economy, and society. The spread of Humanism, and the effects of the War of Roses. Readings: McKay Chapter 13 Video: The Medici-Godfathers of the Renaissance Primary Source Reading-The Prince Chapter XVII Paper: Evaluate the changes and continuities in women s public roles during the Renaissance. Terms/Timeline: oligarchy, humanism, secularism, Erasmus, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Henry VII of England, Habsburg-Valois wars Test: chapter 13 The Reformation The Reformation and impact of on western society. The response of the Catholic Church and the contribution of major Protestant reformers. Readings: McKay chapter 14 DBQ-College Board DBQ from Describe the various values and purposes of Renaissance education. Terms/Timeline: John Knox, Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Charles V, Council of Trent, Benefices, Peace of Augsburg, Calvinism. Film-Luther Paper: Analyze the impacts of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation(Counter Reformation) on the social order of sixteenth-century Europe. Test: chapter 14 The Age of Expansion and Religious Wars The factors which led to the discovery and conquest of lands by Europeans and how these possessions affected European countries. Readings: McKay chapter 15

4 Terms/Timeline: mercantilism, skepticism, misogyny, baroque, Elizabeth I, Huguenots, Thirty Years War, Defeat of Spanish Armada, Peace of Westphalia, Edict of Nantes, Skepticism Film: Elizabeth (with handout and discussion about Historical inaccuracies) Test: Chapter 15 Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western and Eastern Europe The factors which led to the transition from feudalism to absolutism in Western and Eastern Europe. The differences between absolutism in both regions and the impact of the Turkish invasion on Eastern European absolutism and their peasants. Readings: McKay chapters 16 and 17 Terms/Timeline Chapter 16: absolutism, Sovereignty, Fronde, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIV of France, Moliere, Oliver Cromwell, John Locke, War of Spanish Succession. Terms/Timeline Chapter 17: Junkers,Autocracy, pragmatic Sanction, Frederick the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, War of Austrian Succession. Paper: What conditions in England led to the establishment of the Commonwealth in England and what impact did this have on the development of government in England? Video: First part of Russia: Land of the Tsars & Movie Cromwell(segments) Test: Chapters 16 and 17 Expansion, A New World View, and a Change in Life of the people The Newtonian world-view, its difference from the medieval world view, and its affect on society, religion, the economy, and politics. The expansion of world trade and the consequences on the lives of the common people. Readings: McKay chapters DBQ- College Board DBQ from Analyze the arguments for and against the restriction of the sale of gin in eighteenth century England.

5 Terms/Timeline Chapter 18: Enlightenment, rationalism, philosophes, Bayle, Kepler, Descartes, D Holbach, Montesquieu, Catherine the Great, Voltaire Primary Source Reading-John Locke s 2 nd Treatise on Civil government Terms/Timeline chapter 19: Open field system, enclosure, cottage industry, agricultural revolution, bubonic plague, Navigation Acts, peace of Utrecht, Charles Townsend Paper:Compare and contrast the political ideas of Hobbes and Locke. Terms/Timeline chapter 20: Jesuits, Edward Jenner, Methodists, extended and nuclear families Chapter 19 Short Answer Discussions: Answer the following questions: 1 How did the new scientific theory and discoveries alter the concept of God and religion? Did Science, in fact, come to dictate humanity s concept of God? 2 Where did the modern agricultural revolution originate and what was it s impact on the people and their lives? 3 Describe the various forms popular leisure took in the 18 th century, and describe how and why the changes were underway. Test: Chapter 18, 19, and 20 *** Midterm Exam *** Possibly? More Chapters (Certainly) Second Semester The Revolution and Politics The various causes of the Frence and American Revolutions. The impact of the French revolution on the people of Europe and specifically on France Readings: McKay chapter 21 Video: The French Revolution and Napolean Biography

6 Terms/Timeline: Jacobins, Girondists, Reign of Terror, Mountain, Bastille, sans-culottes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, Robespierre, Termidorian Reaction and Directory, Napoleon, Classical Liberalism A Revolution in Energy and Industry Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution and it s impact on England and the rest of Europe and it s people. Readings: McKay chapter 22 Terms/Timeline: cottage workers, Chartist Movement, separate spheres, Crystal Palace, spinning jenny, Zollverein, Robert Owens, James Watt, Engels Paper: Analyze and describe the working class responses to Industrialization between 1850 and Test: Chapter 21 and 22 Ideologies, Upheavals and Changing Life in Urban Society The romantic revolt and it s impact on politics, the arts, and society. The lingering influence of the French Revolution on political development in the first half of the 19 th century and how the resulting urbanization affected Western society in Europe. Readings: McKay chapter 23 and 24 Primary source reading-marx s Communist Manifesto Terms Chapter 23: balance of power, romanticism, nationalism, laissez faire, socialism, Quadruple Alliance, Corn Law, Marx s Communist Manifesto, George Sand Terms chapter 24: Darwin s Theory of evolution, Freud, Joseph Lister,Jeremy Bentham Video: Second 1/3 of Russia: Land of the tsars Short answer questions: 1. Marx claimed that as a result of industrialization there was an increasing polarization of society into rich and poor. Do the facts warrant such a conclusion? 2. To what extent was industrialization responsible for the deplorable conditions of the cities in the early 19 th century?

7 3. What methods were used by the Great Powers to preserve the balance of power? 4. Why did the French turn their backs on the 1848 Revolution and elect a strongman as president? Test: Chapter 23 and 24 Field Trip to London, England- Not mandatory. (Spring Break) Nationalism and Growing Imperialism The growth of nationalism and unification of both Germany and Italy. The subsequent establishment of imperialism and it s impact on both European and non-western societies. Readings: McKay chapters 25 and 26 DBQ-College Board DBQ from Describe the controversies over the relationship between the English and the Irish from Terms/Timeline Chapter 25: Disraeli, Alexander II, Cavour, Garibaldi, Napoleon s III s coup d etat, May Day, Paris Commune of 1871, Ulster Revolt of Dec. 1913, Zollerein Terms/Timeline chapter 26 The White Man s burden, Suez Canal, British opium trade, Boers, Treaty of Nanking 1842 Paper: Analyze attitudes toward and evaluate the motivations behind the European acquisition of African colonies in the period 1880 to Primary Source Reading- Kipling s-white Man s Burden Movie: Gandhi (if time) Test: Chapter 25 and 26 The Great Break: War and Revolution The causes and impact of World War I and its major results including how the war affected the common people. The subsequent Russian Revolution and establishment of a communist state.

8 Reading: McKay chapter 27 Video: Last installment of Russia: Land of the a Tsars Terms/Timeline: Bolsheviks, principle of national self-determination, war reparations, Lusitania, Duma, Petrograd Soviet, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin The Social Impact of World War I-Anxiety The impact of the Lost Peace of 1919 and the development of political unrest in Germany. The alienation of people after WWI and its reflection in art, psychology, philosophy, and literature Terms/Timeline chapter 28: KellogI briand Pact, F. Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sarte, Modrn Existentialism, Cubism, Surrealism. Reading: McKay chapter 28 Test Chapters Dictatorships and the Second World War The impact of how unresolved problems of WWI ignited another worldwide conflict. Totalitarianism (both Nazi and Soviet) and the abilities of the Allies to defeat Nazi Germany and Axis powers. Readings: McKay chapter 29 DBQ- College Board DBQ from Identify and analyze the political issues in the debate over Pan-Slavism Terms/Timeline Chapter 29: Modern totalitarianism, Hitler s Final Solution, fascism, Benito Mussolini, Munich Conference (1938), Nazi- Soviet Pct (1939), Battle of Stalingrad (1942), Normandy invasion (1944) Test: chapter 29 Recovery from WWII and the Establishment of the Cold War The development of the cold war and the successful rebuilding of Western Europe. The growing independence of non-western countries and society s culture post war.

9 Readings: McKay chapter 30 Terms/Timeline chapter 30: Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Common Market (EEC), Mao Ze Dong, Fidel Castro, The Berlin Airlift (1948), partition of Palestine (1948), Gamal Nassar The Recent Past, 1968 to the Present The world economy in the 1970 s and the consequences of the reverse shift. The growth of women s movement and the end of the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Readings: McKay chapter 31 Terms/Timeline Chapter 31: OPEC, stagflation, The Polish Elections of 1989, Détente, Tet Offensive, Solidarity, Boris Yeltsin, Eastern revolutions of Eastern Europe. Test: chapters Review for the AP EXAM!