Honors World History Harkness Seminars and Homework for Unit 4 Chapters 16 and 17- - 1 and 17- - - 2 + Documents Day of Presentation: Chapter- - Section Homework Guiding Questions: Define all key terms and explain how each is helping to create (or not) an absolutist government in Spain. 1. What problems did Charles V face while Holy Roman Emperor? 2. Why did Charles V end up dividing the Habsburg Empire? 3. What was the Escorial and what did it say about King Philip II that had it Wed., 10/22 (per 5, 6, 7) built? Group 4 Group 3 ***Period 4 Groups 4 and 3 will be on Tuesday, 10/28 as well as groups 2 and 1 *** 16 1 16 - - 2 use Guiding Questions 4. What three tools did Philip II use to maintain power in Europe? (p. 320) 5. Battle of Lepanto (1571) 6. What were the multiple reasons for the decline of Spain? 7. Why are the years 1550 1650 considered the Golden Age of Spain? Define all key terms and explain how each is helping to create (or not) an absolutist government in France. 8. What were all the things Louis XIV did to become an absolutist ruler of France? 9. How did Jacques Beningne Bossuet help Louis XIV in his quest to become absolutist? (p. 326) 10. How did Louis XIV use art to further his image as an absolutist ruler? 11. How was Louis XIV able to control the nobility? 12. How did Louis XIV s actions weaken France s economy? Mon, 10/27 (per 5, 6, 7) Group 2 16 3 on Guiding 16-4 16-5 Questions Do all the key terms and explain how each contributed (or not) to creating a constitutional monarchy in England? 1. What is the main idea of the speech by James I to Parliament on page 330? Do you think Parliament agreed with the king s speech? Why or why not? 2. Why did Henry VII and Elizabeth I work with Parliament?
Group 1 ***Period 4 Groups 4 and 3 will be on Tuesday, 10/28 as well as groups 2 and 1 *** 3. In what ways did James I clash with Parliament? 4. What is the main idea of the excerpt of Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes on p. 331? Do you think it was meant for English kings or members of Parliament? Why? 5. Petition of Right 6. What two sides were fighting in the English Civil War and was the result of the war? 7. What was the Commonwealth? When did it rule? What groups liked it and what groups did not? Why? 8. What was the Glorious Revolution and why was it called that? 9. What three political institutions contributed to the evolution of Britain s constitutional government? 10. How did British society remain divided? 11. SOAPSTone the English Bill of Rights [we ll do this together in class] 12. What was the Peace of Westphalia 1648? (Explain in great details.) 13. Define all the key terms and use them to explain how Peter the Great and Catherine the Great ruled Russia by explaining how both: Controlled the church Controlled the nobles Expanded Russia s borders Day of Presentation: Chapter- - Section Homework Due: Guiding Questions:
Do all key terms. Make sure you write down the main Enlightenment ideas that each philosophe came up with. 1. How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment in Europe? 2. How did Hobbes and Locke differ in their views on the role of government? 3. How does the title page of the book Leviathan demonstrate the topic of the book? 4. What did Voltaire attack in his writings? 5. What did Montesquieu think was necessary to protect liberty? 6. What ideas were denounced (attacked) in the Encyclopedia and how did the Wednesday, 10/29 (Per 5, 6, and 7) Group 4 Group 3 17 1 use Guiding French government and the pope react to these attacks? 7. Even though Voltaire and Rousseau were both philosophes they disagreed about some issues. Explain what they disagreed about. Thursday, 10/30 (Per 4) 17 2 Questions 8. How did Enlightenment ideas impact women? Identify a woman who Group 4 (Ch17-1); Group 3 (Ch17-2) reacted to the enlightenment, the name of her work and her ideas. 9. Who were physiocrats? What idea did they reject? What idea did they introduce? Who was the most famous physiocrat and what was the name of his work and what ideas were included in it? 10. Contrast the values of the Middle Ages with the new values of the Age of Reason. Write your answer using WADE. 11. What groups challenged the new Enlightenment ideas and how? How did
enlightenment writer still get around these restrictions? 12. Contrast the values of baroque and rococo art. 13. What did each of the following rulers in order to show they were each Enlightened Despots: Frederick the Great (Frederick II) of Prussia Catherine the Great of Russia Joseph II of Austria Essay Question #1 (A multi- - paragraph answer that includes an intro. paragraph a minimum of three body paragraphs and a conclusion.):. Compare the causes and effects of the development of constitutional monarchy in England with those of the development of absolute monarchy in ONE of the following countries: Friday and Monday, 11/3 No Homework Due - - Group Work in class France Spain Russia Short answer question #1 (A one- - paragraph answer.): Choose ONE of the following and explain how it was a major cause of the Enlightenment: Renaissance ideas Scientific Revolution Protestant Reformation Resistance to absolutism Short answer question #2 Choose ONE of the following pre- - enlightenment and enlightenment philosophes and summarize their ideas, including the name of specific
works they wrote: John Locke Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Adam Smith Short answer question #3 Evaluate the impact of Enlightenment ideals on the development of ONE of the following in the Western World: Economic developments Political developments Religious developments Monday/Tuesday 11/3; 11/4 16 and 17- - - 1, 17- - 2 Review PPT/Lecture Notes SOAPStone documents: Two Treatises of Government p. 363 Wednesday (11/5- Aday)/Thursday (11/6- Bday) = Unit 4 Test Chapters 16, 17 1 and 17- - 2. Absolutism and Enlightenment