AP European History

(I am not teaching AP Euro this Fall, However . . .)

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Date Class topics Hwk
Summer Prepare for discussion and possible quiz on first day of class.  You may use notes but not the text. Reading Chapters 5 and 6 from McKay

Handout: Polybius's Histories

Week 1

31 Aug 04 Introduction

Quiz and Discussion: Rome its foundations and legends

Reading on Ceasar from W.D.
1 Sept 04 Discussion: The Republic its evolution and decline

Art and architecture of Rome

Map of Roman Empire 117 C.E.

Handout: The Roman Day, baths, and games

2 Sept 04 More of Art and architecture of Rome

Augustus and Empire

Presentations: 

  • Augustus Caesar
  • Cleopatra

Map Quiz

Review for Exam
3 Sept 04 First Essay Exam  

McKay Chapter 7 (Christian Monasticism - Eastern Monasticism)

210 - 214 (5th ed)

211 - 215 (6th ed)

McKay Chapter 7 (The arabs and Islam - end of chapter)

227 - 233 (5th ed)

230 - 236 (6th ed)

Week 2

6- Sept 04 Labor Day
7 Sept 04 review of essays

Discussion of the role of invasions in shaping European history

Law of the Visogoths (c 450)

Germanic Formulas concerning ordeals

Art of the middle ages

McKay Ch 10 (Those who work - popular religion)

292 - 306 (5th ed)

301 - 315 (6th ed)

McKay Ch 9 (Feudalism - Manoralism)

255 - 258 (5th ed)

259 - 262 (6th ed)

8 Sept 04 Feudalism and Manoralism McKay Ch 10 (Those who Fight - economic difficulties

306 - 320 (5th ed)

315 - 329 (6th ed)

9 Sept 04 Discussion:  The Hundred Years War McKay Midieval Origins of the modern state - commercial revolution

328 - 351 (5th ed)

335 - 360 (6th ed)

10 Sept 04 Black Death

McKay 372 - 377 (Black Death)

Introduction to the Renaissance

For source materials

Another souce for materials

Get a copy of the Prince

McKay Italian Renaissance - Status of the Artist

404 - 416 (5th ed)

415 - 428 (6th ed)

Week 3

13 Sept 04 Presentations and background information:

The Prince

by Machiavelli (Columbia University)

Ch. 1 - 6

14 Sept 04 Discussion on the Prince

Presentations

The Prince

by Machiavelli (Gutenburg Project)

Ch. 6 - 11

15 Sept 04 Discussion on the Princed

Presentations:

  • Pope Julius II 1505 - 1513
  • Michelangelo 1475 - 1564
  • Raphael
  • Titan

The Prince

by Machiavelli (Oregon State College)

Ch 11 through End

16 Sept 04 Rosh Hashanah

Conclusion of the Prince

Handout: Renaissance Sexual Morality

McKay Ch 13 (Social change - Blacks in Renaissance Society)

413 - 423 (5th ed)

428 - 437 ((6th ed)

17 Sept 04 Essay exam: Renaissance in Italy Handout: The Sack of Rome in 1527

Week 4

20 Sept 04 First DBQ Handout: Clement VI

McKay Ch 11 (Heresy and the Friars)

360 - 364 (5th ed)

368 - 371 (6th ed)

21 Sept 04

Review of DBQ

Presentations:

  • Bosh
  • Durer
  • The Utopia
McKay Ch 14 (Conditions of the Church - Social impact of Luther)

340 - 351 (5th ed)

351 - 362 (6th ed)

22 Sept 04 Luther's beliefs

Thomas Moore  Video: A Man For All Seasons

McKay Ch 14 (Germany and the Reformation - Luutheranism in Sweden)

452 - 465 (5th ed)

462 - 475 (6th ed)

23 Sept 02 Thomas Moore  Video: A Man For All Seasons (continued)
24 Sept 02 The other reformers

Presentation: 

  • Wycliff
  • Huss
  • John Calvin
  • John Knox
  • Henry VIII

Week 5

27 Sept 04 Finish Presentations and a Quiz McKay Ch 14 (the Counter reformation)

465 - 471 (5th ed)

475 - 481 (6th ed)

28 Sept 04 Counter Reformation McKay Ch 15 (Discovery - Colonial Administration)

478 - 489 (5th ed)

502 - 521 (6th ed)

29 Sept 04 Minimum day

Presentations:

  • Henry IV (Navarre and Bourbon)
  • Henry Guise
  • Henry Valois
  • Catherine de Medici
McKay Ch 15 Politics, religion, and War - Philip II and Spanish Armada

489 - 499 (5th ed)

487 - 498 (6th ed)

30 Sept 04 Continue Presentations

Discussion of the War of 3 Henries

Discussion of English Monarchy

Presentation

  • Lady Jane Grey
  • Bloody Mary
  • Elizabeth
  • Mary Queen of Scots
1 Oct 04 Quiz (War of Three Henries - English Monarchy)

Presentation

  • Phillip II
  • Margaret
McKay Ch 15 (Thirty Years War - Great Witch Hunt)

499 - 507 (5th ed)

498 - 502 and 515 - 516 (6th ed)

Week 6

4 Oct 04 Video on Art of the Baroque No homework. (bummer!)
5 Oct 04 The Thirty Years War Ch 16  543 - 563
6 Oct 04 Ch 16   523 - 532
7 Oct 04 Reading
8 Oct 04 Presentation on
  • Richelieu
  • Louis XIV
Great Issues in Western Civ.  Louis XIV's Letters to His Heirs    13 pages

Week 7

11 Oct 04 Final Presentation on Louis XIV McKay Ch 16 523 540 Just in case you did not do it
12 Oct 04 Mercantilism under Colbert

The Baroque

McKay Ch 17  559 - 566
13 Oct 04 Frederick William I McKay Ch 17  566 - 584
14 Oct 04 Peter the Great Review for test
15 Oct 04 Big test

Reformation, Wars of Religion, Louis XIV, Absolutism in Europe

McKay Ch 18 589 - 599

The Leviathan

By Thomas Hobbes

Knoebel, 4th ed. 30 - 42

Week 8

18 Oct 04 Finish Video on Art of Baroque

Intro to the Scientific Revolution

Presentations

  • Hobbes
  • Locke
McKay Ch 18 599 - 609

Of Civil Government

By John Locke

19 Oct 04 Intro to the Enlightenment

Presentation

  • Voltaire

Candide

By Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Read the 1st half

20 Oct 04 More on the Enlightenment

Presentations

  • Newton
  • Galileo

Intro to Enlightened Despotism

Read second half of Candide
21 Oct 04 Presentation:
  • Frederick the Great

Reenactment of the Seven Years War

McKay Ch 18 609 - 618
22 Oct 04 Presentations:
  • Rousseau

Start the time lines of history 1450 - 1750

  • Italy - Spain - Netherlands
  • Austria - Prussia - Russia
  • France
  • England

Social Contract book 1

Pick one of the following and answer the included questions

Emile Book I (early childhood ages 0 -5)

Emile Book 2 (Childhood ages 5 - 12)

Emile Book 3 (age 12 - 16)

Emile Book 4 (age 16)

Week 9

25 Oct 04 Start the time lines of history 1450 - 1750
  • Italy - Spain - Netherlands
  • Austria - Prussia - Russia
  • France
  • England

Presentations:

  • Baroque vs Romantic Music
  • Montesquieu

Quiz on the Enlightenment

Palmer, 350 - 356
McKay, 700 - 707
26 Oct 04 Quiz on the Enlightenment

Background to the French Revolution

McKay, 707 - 715
27 Oct 04 French Revolution Palmer, 391 - 409
McKay, 414 - 423
28 Oct 04 French Revolution continued Review for the test
29 Oct 04 General Review  Prepare for the Final  

Week 10

1 Nov 04 Continue the Outline of History
2 Nov 04

Final Exam 

Part I

The Essay Exam

3 Nov 04
4 Nov 04

Final Exam 

Part II

The Multiple Choice  Exam

Napoleonic Europe

McKay pages 623 - 642
5 Nov 04 Agricultural Revolution McKay 727 - 737

Week 11

8 Nov 04 Industrial Revolution  

Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

9 Nov 04 Adam Smith (hero or pariah?)

Colbert (genius or simpleton)

Stimson (genius or Genius?)

Reform in Britain

Presentations

 

McKay 737 - 752

McKay Pages 763 - 777

10 Nov 04 DBQ on Industrial Revolution  

Communist Manifesto

Excerpt from

by Marx and Engles

p367 - 389

11 Nov 04

12 Nov 04

 

Reason in History

Georg Fredrick Hegel

Week 12

15 Nov 04 Romantic movement

Development of the modern city

McKay Pages 795 - 813
16 Nov 04 19th Century: Social History

Marriage

Women's issues

Children

McKay Pages 813 - 827

17 Nov 04 Development of the City

Origin of Species

Excerpts from

by Charles Darwin

18 Nov 04

Review of Social Darwinism

Readings on Social Darwinism

19 Nov 04

Exam McKay p. 831 - 837

Week 13

29 Nov 04 Italian Unification

German Unification

Palmer, p. 518 - 526

McKay p. 837 - 842

30 Nov 04 Imperialism in the 19th Century
  • Changes in form
  • Africa as an example
Palmer p.  608 - 616

Palmer p. 627 - 634

1 Dec 04 Imperialism in the 19th Century
  • India
  • China
  • Japan
Palmer p. 634 - 647
2 Dec 04 Test on 19th Century
3 Dec 04 Conclusion and retest Palmer 660 - 670

Week 14

6 Dec 04
7 Dec 04
8 Dec 04 Intro to W.W.I Handouts on Germany and Italy
9 Dec 04 W.W.I Tactics and technology McKay 911 - 917
10 Dec 04 W.W.I  War Socialism McKay 924 - 933

Week 15

13 Dec 04
14 Dec 04 Mussolini and Italy

Genealogy of Morals

Excerpts from

by Fredrick Nietzsche

15 Dec 04 Finish Mussolini

Review Nietzsche reading

Mien Kampf

Excerpts from

by Adolf  Hitler

 

16 Dec 04 Rise of Hitler Palmer Chapter XX  p 795 - 809
17 Dec 04

Week 17

3 Jan 05 Review of Russian History Palmer Chapter XX p 809 - 825
4 Dec 05 Revolutions:
  • 1905
  • 1917 (March)
  • 1917 (Nov)
Palmer Chapter XX p 825 - 834
5 Dec 05 Stalin: man? monster? little father? Tierney p 663 - 676  Origins of the Cold War: America's Responsibility
6 Dec 05 Churchill: man? monster? alcoholic? Cold Warrior? Tierney p 683 - 688  Churchill on the Cold War

From the History of the Second World War and from his "Iron curtain" speech at Fulton

7 Dec 05 More on the Cold War Prepare for presentations on modern Europe

Week 17

10 Jan 05
11 Jan 05
12 Jan 05
13 Jan 05
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Week 18

17 Jan 05
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19 Jan 05
20 Jan 05
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Week 19

24 Jan 05
25 Jan 05
26 Jan 05

 

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