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Modern European History AP This year long course is divided into four quarters consisting of a total of eighteen chapters broken down further into sections ranging from three five per chapter. Each chapter unit is then tested over using twenty to twenty-five question multiple-choice tests, a group of five identifications and a choice of one of three thematic essay questions. Each chapter will be introduced with a summary and listing of “People Places and Events” relevant to that specific chapter they are to be defined and turned in the day of each chapter test. In addition a minimum of one DBQ will be assigned per quarter. Art History lectures, slides and video presentations will be held on Wednesday class periods throughout the year. Each art history presentation will be followed with a short answer, fill in the blank format quiz. Primary Text: Mortimer Chambers, Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore K. Rabb, Isser Wooloch and Raymond Grew, The Western Experience. New York: McGraw Hill Publishing 8th edition copyright 2003 Supplemental Text Resources: Felix Gilbert, David Clay Large, The End Of The European Era, 1890 To The Present, New York: W.W. Norton and Company Publishing 4th edition copyright 1991 John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe From the French Revolution to the Present, Volume 2, New York W.W. Norton Publishing 2nd edition copyright 2004 John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, A History of Western Society, Houghton Mifflin Publishing 8th edition Primary sources: Various paintings and maps from the Mortimer Chambers text will be used and are listed along with the FRQ question portion. Internet sources such as those listed below but not intended as an inclusive list Eurodocs.lib.byu.edu Internet Modern History Sourcebook (www.fordham.edu) HyperHistory.com Artcyclopedia.com Summer Readings: 1. A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester (summer reading) 2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (summer reading) *First Quarter 1. Book review due the first Monday of the school year for either the Manchester or the Machiavelli summer reading assignment, random assignment of one of the books to be assigned on August 21, 2007. 2. DBQ assignments 1: The Football Game (POV from www.thecaveonline.com) 1 3. DBQ 2: Causes of the Reformation 2 4. Art History focus: a. The Early Renaissance, (Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti) the emergence of oil and the Flemish masters, Van Eyck b. The High Renaissance, (“the Giants” Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Palladio) c. Mannerist Artistic movement: El Greco 5. Primary readings: Petrarch, Chaucer, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Vasari, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Rabelais Boccaccio, Castiglione, Luther, Augsburg Confession, John Calvin, Edict of Nantes, Henry VIII, Council of Trent, Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (University of Texas) Chapter 12: Tradition and Change in European Culture (1300 – 1500) 1. Founding and the Basis of Humanism 2. Fifteenth century Humanism 3. Neoplatonists and Florentine Neoplatonism 4. Heritage of New Learning 5. Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture, (the early years and the “three friends”) 6. Northern Renaissance 7. Art and Music and the Patronage of such 8. Scholastic Philosophy and Religious Thought 9. State of Christendom, Political and Financial 10. Revival Papacy, styles of Piety 11. Movements of Doctrinal Reform / Wycliffe and Hus Chapter 13: Reformations in Religion 1. Piety and Dissent 2. Popular Religion and the Spread of Ideas (veillee and printing) 3. Protest in Literature and Art 4. Christian Humanist Movement (English and Dutch varieties) 5. The Lutheran Reformation and Break with Rome 6. Lutheran Doctrine and the Spread of Lutheranism 7. Protestantism / Zwingli, Calvin, Henry VIII 8. The Catholic Revival / Paul III Ignatius Loyola Chapter 14: Economic Expansion and a New Politics 1. Expansion at Home (demographic increase and economic growth) 2. Overseas Expansion / Spanish and Portuguese 3. The Centralization of Political Power / Tudors, Valois, Hapsburgs 4. The Splintered States (HRE, Poland, Hungary) 5. The New Statecraft / Machiavelli and Guicciardini 3 Chapter 15: War and Crisis 1. Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II 2. Thirty Years War to the Peace of Westphalia 3. The Military Revolution 4. Revolution in England and Cromwell 5. Revolts in France and Spain 6. Political Change in an Age of Crisis Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution 1. Scientific Advance from Copernicus – Newton 2. The Effects of the Discoveries 3. The Arts and Literature 4. Social Patterns and Popular Culture Chapter 17: The Emergence of the European State System 1. Absolutism in France / Louis XIV 2. Other patterns of Absolutism / Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns 3. Alternatives to Absolutism / United Provinces, Poland, Sweden, England 4. The International System *Second Quarter 1. DBQ Assignment: Origins of the French Revolution 2. Art History focus: Baroque Art and Architecture, Rococo Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt and Velasquez, Watteau (Art of the Western World) 3. Primary source readings: Descartes, Hobbes, Smith, Wilberforce, Diderot, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Voltaire, Abbe Sieyes, Thomas Paine, Rousseau Chapter 18: Wealth of Nations 1. Demographic and Economic Growth 2. The New Shape of Industry 3. Innovation and Tradition in Agriculture 4. Eighteenth Century Empires Chapter 19: The Age of Enlightenment 1. The Enlightenment / salons, philosophes, reason, beyond Christianity 2. Eighteenth-Century Elite Culture 4 3. Popular Culture / literature, literacy, recreation 5 Chapter 20: The French Revolution 1. Reform and Political Crisis /Central and Eastern Europe / Upheaval in British Empire 2. Origins of French Revolution / Fiscal and Political Deadlock 3. The Reconstruction of France / Phase 1 4. The Second Revolution / Phase II The Terror Chapter 21: The Age of Napoleon 1. Thermidorian Reaction – Brumaire Coup (1794-1799) 2. Napoleonic Settlement in France 3. Napoleonic Hegemony in Europe 4. Opposition to Napoleon / “Spanish Ulcer” – Exile *Third Quarter: 1. DBQ Assignments (2): Irish Potato Famine and Industrial Revolution in England 2. Primary Source readings: Freud, Pavlov, Marx, Engels, Hegel, Darwin, Ricardo, Malthus, Mazzini, The Frankfurt Constitution 3. Art History focus: Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionist, Pointilist, Cubism, Turner Monet Manet, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, Picasso Chapter 22: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Politics and Social Change 1. The Politics of Order / Congress of Vienna 2. The Progress of Industrialization 3. Social Effects / Family, standard of living, the division of labor Chapter 23: Learning to Live with Change 1. Ideas of Change / romanticism, socialism 2. The Structure of Society / demographic shift, social welfare 3. The Spread of Liberal Government / Great Britain, The Revolutions of 1830 Chapter 24: National States and National Cultures 1. The Revolutions of 1848 2. The Politics of Nationalism, Second Empire France, Italian Unification, German Unification 3. Nineteenth Century Culture 6 Chapter 25: European Power: Wealth Knowledge and Imperialism 1. The Economics of Growth / The Second Industrial Revolution 2. The Knowledge of Nature and Society 3. Europe and the World 4. Modern Imperialism / Imperialism and European Society Chapter 26: The Age of Progress 1. The Belle Epoch 2. Attacks on Liberal Civilization 3. Domestic Policies / Third Republic, The Reich, 1905 Russian Revolution *Fourth Quarter: 1. DBQ Assignment (answer 1): Rise of Fascist Regimes or The Issue of Northern Ireland 2. Primary source readings: Wilson, Bismarck, Clemenceau, Terms of Triple Alliance, Wilfred Owen, Treaty of Versailles, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, Kristeva 3. Art History focus: Dada, Nihilism, Surrealist, Modernism, Post-Modernist, Kandinsky, Dali, Magritte, Miro Chapter 27: World War I and the World it Created 1. The Coming of the War / background, alliances, spark 2. The Course of the War 3. The Peace Arrangements 4. Postwar Democracy / New Governments, established democracies, international relations Chapter 28: The Great Twentieth-Century Crisis 1. Two Successful Revolutions / Communism, Fascism 2. The Distinctive Culture of the Twentieth Century 3. The Retreat from Democracy / Authoritarian Regimes, Economic Depression 4. Nazi Germany and the U.S.S.R / Hitler, Stalin 5. Democracy’s weak Response Chapter 29: The Nightmare: World War II 1. The Years of Axis Victories 2. The Global War 3. Building on the Ruins 7 4. European Recovery 8 Chapter 30: The New Europe 1. The New Institution / Moving toward European Union 2. Postindustrial Society 3. The Politics of Prosperity 4. The End of an Era / Disintegration of the USSR 5. Contemporary Culture Modern European History AP Chapter 12: People, Places, & Events 9 PEOPLE (“claim to fame” of each) 38. Sofonisba Anguissola 39. Artemisia Gentileschi 1. King Edward III 40. Isabell Andreini 41. Laura Cereta 2. Sforza Family 42. Bernardino of Siena and Savorola 3. Medici family: Cosimo Lorenzo, Piero 43. Saint Maurice 4. Pope Alexander VI 44. Isabella (Sforza) 5. Cesare Borgia 45. Thomas More 6. Girolama Savonnarola 46. Erasmus 7. Charles VIII Louis XII 47. Rabelais 8. Pope Leo X 48. Van Der Weyden and Van Eyck 49. Jerome Bosch 9. Charles V 50. Louis XI 10. Petrarch 51. Henry VII 11. Saint Augustine 52. Ferdinand and Isabella 12. Cellini 53. Charles VII 54. Henry IV 13. Pope Nicholas V 14. Pope Sixtus IV 55. Edward IV 15. Leonardo Bruni 56. Richard III 16. Cicero 57. Henry VIII 17. Pi co Della Mirandola 58. Castile and Leon 18.
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