Advanced Placement European History Syllabus
School: Hopkinsville High School
Instructor: Mr. Andrew L. Goins
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Course Length: 2 Semesters
Text: Kagan, Ozment, Turner, The Western Heritage
Pearson Prentice Hall, Ninth Edition
The course is divided into four quarters. Each quarter will consist of four units. Each unit will conclude with an assessment. This assessment will consist of a 25 multiple-choice question quiz and a comprehensive essay. Items and essay prompts released from the AP Exams as well as original items and prompts will be used in this course. In each quarter, students write one DBQ and one Quarter Paper. In the fourth quarter students will complete a Final Essay Examination following the AP Exam.
Historiography readings from various readers including, Davies, Norman, Europe A History.
Primary sources from various readers and internet sources including:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html and www.thecaveonline.com
Grades are based on performance in the class and outside research. Including:
Tests and quarterly Essays 50%
DBQs, Quizzes, and Projects 35%
Homework 15%
Grading Scale:
A 93-100
B 85-93
C 73-84
D 65-74
F -64
Note: Grade Scale will change into AP Grade Scale after Christmas
First Quarter
DBQ choices: Renaissance Education, Did Women Have a Renaissance, Witchcraft, Dutch Wars
Quarter Paper: Interpretive Biography or Social History
Primary source readings including: Burkhardt, Castiglione, Macchivelli, Cellini, Luther, Calvin, Council of Trent, Charles V, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Bossuet, Bodin, James I, Louis XIV, Laws of Peter the Great
Art Days lecture and slide show: Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Mannerism.
Unit 1: Chapters 10 and 11, Life in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages and The Creativity and Vitality of the High Middle Ages
Generic attributes of Feudalism: the Manor, Agriculture, Health Care, Popular Religion, Political Positions, Social Status, Infancy and Childhood, Power and Responsibility. Those who pray and Economic Difficulties.
Medieval Origins of the Modern State: Unification and Communication, Finance, Law and Justice, Towns and Economic Revival, The Commercial Revolution, Medieval Universities, Gothic Art, Heresy and the Friars, and a Challenge to Religious Authority
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: Exercise on document identification
Unit 2: Chapters 12 and 13, The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages and European Society in the Age of the Renaissance
Compare and Contrast:
The Agriculture Crisis to the Government Measure
The Plague
The Effects of the Black Death
The effects of the Hundred Years War on Europe
The Decline of the Church’s Prestige
The Life of the People
The Importance of the Vernacular Language to the people of Europe and beyond
The Evolution of the Renaissance
Individualism, Humanism, and Secular Spirit
Art Interpretation
Knowing the Artists
Education and Political Thought
Renaissance in the North
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 7 document DBQ of choice
Unit 3: Chapter 14 and 15, Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church
The Protestant Reformation and it effects
The State of the Church
Protestantism and Martin Luther
The Ninety-five Theses
Catholic ideology and Protestant ideology
The Protestant Reformation in Germany
The Growth of the Protestant Reformation
The Catholic Response: Counter Reformation
Hardships in France
The Netherlands and Charles V
The Spanish Armada
The Thirty Years War and its Effects
Exploration and Expansion
Later Explorers
Literature and Baroque Art
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
Unit 4: Chapters 16 and 17, Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Eastern and Western Europe
Compare and Contrast on
French Absolutism of
Henry IV
Richelieu
Louis XIV
French Classicism
The Decline of Absolute Spain
Elizabeth I
James and Charles
Puritanical Absolutism
William and Marry
England’s Parliament
The Dutch Republic
Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe
The Rise of Austria and Prussia
The Development of Russia
Absolutism and Baroque Architecture
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
Essay: Compare and contrast the political, economical, and social conditions between Western Europe monarchies (France, England, and Spain) and the Eastern European monarchies (Austria, Prussia, and Russia.)
Second Quarter
Unit 5: Chapter 18, Toward a New Worldview
The Coming of the Enlightenment
Philosophers: Who were they and what did they reason?
New ideologies in social and political theory
The Importance of Adam Smith
Define Laissez-Faire and Capitalism
Why Did Mercantilism End?
Enlightened Despots: Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa, Joseph II, Louis XI and Louis XVI. Who were they and what their significant roles in history?
The Scientific Revolution
Copernicus
Brahe
Galileo
Newton
The Enlightenment
Fontenelle
Locke
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay.
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 6: Chapter 19, The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Agriculture and the Land
The Beginning of the Population Explosion
The Growth of Cottage Industry
Building the Atlantic Economy
The Importance of the Open-Field Systems
The Agricultural Revolution
Navigation Acts
Spanish and Austrian Succession
Seven Years War
The Atlantic Revival in Colonial Latin America
Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 7: Chapter 20, The Changing Life of the People
Marriage and the Family
Children and Education
Food and Medical Practice
Religion and Popular Culture
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
Essay: Explain why changes occurred in marriage and family during the eighteenth century and what significant historical changes occurred because of them.
Unit 8: Chapter 21, The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815
Liberty and Equality
The American Revolutionary Era, 1775-1789
The French Revolution, 1789-1791
World War and Republican France, 1791-1799
The Breakdown of the Old Order
Napoleon’s Rule and Conquest
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 6 document DBQ of choice
Unit 9: Chapter 22, The Revolution in Energy and Industry
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Capital and Labor
The First Factories
The New Class of Factory Owners
The Sexual Divisions of Labor
Labor for the Classes
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 10: Chapter 23, Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850
The Peace Settlement
Radical Ideas and Early Socialism
Nationalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Marxian Thought
The Romantic Movement
Reforms and Revolutions
Greek War of Independence
Liberal Reform in Great Britain
Ireland and the Great Famine
French Revolutions 1830 and 1846
The Revolutions of 1848
Socialism during the 19th Century
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 11: Chapter 24, Life in the Emerging Society
Taming the City
The Bacterial Revolution
Urbanization
Rich and Poor and Those in Between
Social Structure and their differing cultures
The Changing Family
Views on Sex and Marriage, Gender Roles, and Family Life
Science and Thought
Social Science and Evolution
Improving lives
The Realist Movement
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 12: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
Napoleon III in France
The Second Republic
Louis Napoleon
Nation Building in Italy and Germany
Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy
Austro-Prussian War, 1866
Nation Building in the United States
The Homestead Act of 1862
The Industrialization of Russia
The Revolution of 1905
The Responsive State, 1871-1914
The German Empire
Republican France
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti- Semitism
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 13: Chapter 26, The West and the World
Industrialization and the World Economy
The Rise of Global Inequality
The Importance of the Japanese and Chinese Markets
The Great Migration
Population Increases and their Results
European and Asian Migrants
Western Imperialism
Imperialism in Asia
Causes of the New Imperialism
Results of Imperialism
Responses to Western Imperialism
Great Rebellion (India)
Qing Dynasty on the verge of collapse
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 14: Chapter 27, The Great Break: War and Revolution
The First World War
The Bismarckian attitude toward alliances
Archduke Ferdinand and the Austrian and Hungarian throne
Origin of the War
The Expansion of War
The Homefront
U.S. reasons for war
U.S. mobilization
Social Impact
The Russian Revolution
The Fall of Imperial Russia
Rasputin’s role in the collapse
Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
Trotsky and the Seizure of Power
The Peace Settlement
The Treaty of Versailles and its impact
The forming of the UN
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice
Unit 15: Chapter 28, The Age of Anxiety
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Thought
Logical Empiricism
Existentialism
The Revival of Christianity
Modern Art and Music
Movies and Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
The Great Depression, 1929- 1939
The New Deal
U.S.’s Solution VS other countries, i.e. Scandinavia, France, and Britain
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
Unit 16: Chapter 29 Dictatorships and the Second World War
Authoritarian States
Conservative Authoritarianism
Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Stalin’s Soviet Union
Lenin and Stalin
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
The Roots of Nazism
Hitler’s Road to Power
The Nazi State and Society
Nazi Expansion and the Second World War
The Great Alliance and the Tide of Battle
Test: 25 Question multiple choice followed by an essay
DBQ: 10 document DBQ of choice