AP European History Course Syllabus

Course Description:

This course will conform to the competency goals and objectives set forth in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’sStandard Course of Study. The course is described in the document as follows:

Advanced Placement European History is a college level survey course that covers the time period from approximately 1450 until the present. The course will cover economic, social, cultural, intellectual, political, and diplomatic themes in European History. Students will be expected to develop analytical thinking and persuasive writing skills in dealing with historical evidence and interpretation.

NCDPI Standard Course of Study, 2005

The course will follow the generally chronological organizationof the textbook.

Competency Goal 1: Historical Tools and Practices: The learner will identify, analyze and synthesize the methods and tools valued by historians in order to investigate the themes of history.

Objectives

1.01 Define the concepts of cause and effect, time continuity, perspective, and periodization.

1.02 Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources to compare views, trace themes, and detect bias.

1.03 Relate psychology, geography, art, literature, political science, sociology, and economics to the study of history.

1.04 Evaluate themes of society, technology, economics, politics, and culture as they relate to the development of Europe.

1.05 Examine the indicators of European civilization including writing, labor specialization, cities, technology, trade, and political and cultural institutions.

Competency Goal 2: Formation of Governments and Diplomacy: The learner will investigate the development of European governments, their historical interrelationship, and their connections to Europe today.

Objectives

2.01 Trace the development of the European political structure as they emerge from the Middle Ages and as it evolves into the nation-state.

2.02 Analyze the rise of the modern state in its various forms.

2.03 Compare and contrast the political relationships among European nations and their influence and expansion throughout the world: colonialism, imperialism, decolonization in global interdependence.

2.04 Exhibit an understanding of the revolutionary process, political protest and reform as they pertain to the development of European nation-states.

2.05 Analyze and explain the growth and changing forms of nationalism.

2.06 Demonstrate an understanding of varying origins, developments, technologies and consequences of war and civil conflicts.

2.07 Differentiate efforts to balance power and restrain conflict through treaties, diplomacy, and international organizations.

2.08 Evaluate the evolution of political elites and the development of political parties, ideologies and other mass politics.

2.09 Examine domestic and foreign policies and their interrelationship.

2.10 Summarize the extension and limitation of personal, civic, economic, and political rights and liberties, including political persecutions.

Competency Goal 3: Patterns of Social Order: The learner will investigate European social organization from approximately 1450 to the present, in order to understand shifts in power and status.

Objectives

3.01 Trace the shift in social structures from hierarchical orders to modern social classes with an emphasis on the changing distribution of wealth and poverty.

3.02 Analyze the influence of sanitation and health care practices on society including, but not limited to, the impact of food supply, diet, famine, and disease.

3.03 Examine the development and transformation of racial and ethnic group identities.

3.04 Evaluate the role of urbanization in transforming cultural values and social relationships.

3.05 Analyze gender roles and their influence on the dynamics of domestic and public life.

3.06 Identify the changing definitions of and attitudes toward main stream groups and groups, characterized as the “other.”

3.07 Assess the causes and consequences of change in demographic structure and reproductive patterns of Europeans.

Competency Goal 4: Development of European Economic Systems: The learner will investigate and understand the formation of European economic systems.

Objectives

4.01 Analyze growth of competition and interdependence in national and world markets.

4.02 Evaluate the private and state roles in economic activity from the Renaissance to the present.

4.03 Understand the development, rewards and benefits and the consequences of European Industrialization.

4.04 Assess the economic and social impact of mass production, and the consumption of commercial goods and services.

4.05 Examine the causes and effects of the agricultural, industrial and commercial revolutions and their impact upon European states and their colonies.

4.06 Evaluate the various economic theories and key economists and their impact upon European economic systems.

Grading:Tests60%i

Homework20%

Class Participation20%

Tests:Chapter tests will consist of twenty-five multiple-choice items and one free-response question or document-based question.

Homework: Study questions, identification items and map exercises will be assigned from the Study Guide. These are to be completed as theircorresponding chapter sections are read.Students should review the links listed below and read primary sources before discussion in class.Additional reading assignments chosen to acquaint students with the methodology of historical scholarship and interpretation and the analysis of secondary source documents are interspersed through the course and designated below by asterisks.

Texts:

R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer.A History of the Modern World. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 10th edition, 2007.

Megan McLean. Study Guide for use with A History of the Modern World. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Additional Reading:

Sherman, Dennis. Western Civilization: Sources, Images and Interpretations, from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: McGraw Hill, 8th edition, 2011.

Tuchman, Barbara W. Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

Date / Text, Primary and Secondary Sources and Multimedia
8/16/12 / Chapter 1 The Rise of Europe, Section 1. Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity pp. 9-18
  1. The Greek World
  2. [Maps Ancient Greece]
  3. [Primary Source Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration]
  4. [Primary Source Description of Corinth]
  5. [Primary Source Aristotle, Description of Sparta]
  6. [Primary Source Plato, Republic]
  7. [Primary Source Herodotus, History]
  8. [Primary Source Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War]
  9. [Primary Source Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans]
  10. [Primary Source Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution]
  11. [Map Conquests ofAlexander the Great]
  12. [Map Hellenistic world, 310 BC]
  13. [Image Ptolemaic Solar System]
  1. The Roman World
  2. [Image Roman couple]
  3. [Primary Source RomanArmy]
  4. [Roman Army]
  1. The Coming of Christianity
  2. [Primary Source Josephus on Jesus]
  3. [Primary Source Pliny on the Christians]
  4. [Image Early Christian]
  5. [Primary Source Constantine]
  6. [Primary Source Augustine, City of God]
*Read Tuchman pp. 15-24 “In Search of History.”
8/17/12 / Chapter 1, Section 2. The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe pp. 18-28
  1. The Disintegration of the Roman Empire
  2. [Primary Source Goths]
  3. [Primary Source Attila the Hun]
  4. [Image Mosque, Umayyad Damascus]
  5. [Primary Source Beowulf]
  6. [Primary Source Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410]
  7. [Image Muhammad]
  8. [Map Early Islamic Empire]
  1. The Byzantine World, Arabic World, and the West about 700
  2. [Image Qur’an]
  3. [Primary Source Germanic lawcode]
  4. [Map Europec. 526]
  1. The Church and the Rise of the Papacy
  2. [Image Bishop]
  3. [Primary Source On Papal Elections]
  1. The Empire of Charlemagne, 800-814
  2. [Primary Source Charlemagne]
  3. [Image Charlemagne crowned, 800]
  4. [Primary Source Carolingians]
  5. [Primary Source Monetary Regulations of the Carolingians]
  1. Ninth-Century Invasions; Europe by 1000
  2. [Primary Source Norsemen]
  3. [Map Movement ofHungarians into Europe]
  4. [Primary Source Moscow as the Third Rome]
  5. [Image Iconoclasts]
*Read Tuchman pp. 33-44 “History by the Ounce.”
8/20/12 / Chapter 1, Section 3. The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization pp. 28-37
  1. Agriculture and the Feudal System after 1000
  2. [Image Medieval Germantown]
  3. [Image Windmill]
  4. [Image Water mill]
  5. [ImageVillage in Winter]
  6. [Primary Source Manorial Management and Organization, c. 1275]
  7. [Primary Source Fief Ceremonies]
  8. [Primary Source Feudal Oaths of Fidelity]
  9. [Primary Source Election of Hugh Capet]
  10. [Primary Source Manor]
  1. The Rise of Towns and Commerce
  2. [Primary Source Long-distance trading]
  3. [Primary Source Venetian Doges]
  4. [Primary Source Great Fair at Thessalonica]
  5. [Primary Source Charter for Town ofSt. Omer, 1127]
  6. [Primary Source Merchant guild]
  7. [Primary Source Apprenticeship Agreements, c. 1250]
  1. The Growth of National Monarchies
  2. [Primary Source MagnaCarta]
  3. [Primary Source Summonsto Parliaments]
  4. [Primary Source Parliament of 1376]
*Read Tuchman pp. 45-50 “The Historian as Artist.”
8/21/12 / Chapter 1, Section 4. The High Middle Ages: The Church pp. 37-48
  • [Image Miracle play]
  • [Virtual Tour Amiens Cathedral]
  • [Image Priest celebrating Mass]
  • [Image Bishop marrying couple]
  1. The Development of the Medieval Church and Papacy
  2. [Map Holy Roman Empire, 962]
  3. [Primary Source Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910]
  4. [Primary Source Lay investiture]
  5. [Image Innocent III]
  6. [Primary Source Albigensians]
  7. [Image Trial by battle]
  1. Intellectual Life: The Universities, Scholasticism
  2. [Primary Source Abelard,Sic et Non, 1120]
  3. [Primary Source Aquinas, Summa]
  4. [Primary Source Scholastic philosophy: Anselm on God's]
  5. [Image Averroes]
  6. [Image Muslim Astronomers]
  1. The Crusades; New Invasions; Europe by 1300
  2. [Primary Source The Crusades]
  3. [Map Map of Reconquista]
  4. [Primary Source Marco Polo]
* Read Tuchman pp. 55-64 “The Historian’s Opportunity.”
8/22/12 / Chapter 1 Test (multiple-choice only)
8/23/12 / Chapter 2 The Upheaval in Western Christendom 1300-1560, Section 5. Disasters of the Fourteenth Century pp. 49-55
  1. The Black Death and Its Consequences
  2. [Primary Source BlackDeathdescribed by Boccaccio]
  3. [Image BlackDeath]
  4. [Image Beggars]
  5. [Primary Source Jacquerie of1358]
  6. [Primary Source EnglishPeasant Revolt of 1381]
  7. [Image Small peasants]
  8. [Primary Source Froissart, Hundred Years' War]
  9. [Primary Source Joan ofArc]
  10. [Primary Source Warsof Roses]
  1. Troubles of the Medieval Church
  2. [Primary Source Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam]
  3. [Primary Source Petrarch, LetterCriticizing the Avignon Papacy]
  4. [Primary Source Great Schism]
  5. [Primary Source Witchcraft Documents]
  6. [Primary Source Witchcraft Trial]
  7. [Primary Source John Wyclif, On the Sacrament of Communion]
  8. [Primary Source Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 and Wycliffe's Reply, 1384]
  9. [Primary Source JohnHuss]
  1. The Conciliar Movement
  2. [Primary Source Council of Pisa]
  3. [Primary Source Council of Constance]
  4. [Primary Source Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, 1438]
  5. [Image Leo X]
  6. [Image LucretiaBorgia]
*Read Tuchman pp 76-90 “The Houses of Research” and “Biography as a Prism of History.”
8/24/12 / Chapter 2, Section 6. The Renaissance in Italy pp. 56-69
  1. The ItalianCities and the New Conception of Life
  2. [Primary Source Villani, Florentine Chronicle]
  3. [Primary Source Da Vinci]
  1. Humanism: The Birth of "Literature"
  2. [Image Dante, Divine Comedy]
  3. [Image Petrarch]
  4. [Primary Source Petrarch, Familiar Letters]
  5. [Image Boccaccio]
  1. Schooling, Manners and Family Life
  2. [Image Durer,Young Venetian Woman]
  1. Politics and the Italian Renaissance
  2. [Image Niccolo Machiavelli]
  3. [Primary Source Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince]
*Read Sherman pp. 14-17 and answer chapter questions 1 and 2 on p. 17.
8/27/12 / Chapter 2, Section 7. The Renaissance Outside Italy pp. 69-72
  1. Religious Scholarship and Science
  2. [Primary Source Paracelsus, The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists]
  3. [Image Copernicus]
  1. Mysticism and Lay Religion
  2. [Primary Source Thomas aKempis, Imitation of Christ]
  1. Erasmus of Rotterdam
  2. [Primary Source Praise of Folly]

8/28/12 / Chapter 2, Section 8. The New Monarchies pp. 71-77
  1. The New Monarchy in England, France, and Spain
  2. [Primary Source Louis XI]
  1. The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Supremacy
  2. [Image Charles V]
  3. [Primary Source Fall of Constantinople]
  4. [Primary Source Fall of Constantinople]
  5. [Map Hungary under Ottomans]
  6. [Primary Source Visit to Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent]

8/29/12 / Chapter 2. Section 9. The Protestant Reformation pp. 77-92
  1. Luther and Lutheranism
  2. [Primary Source Luther onIndulgences]
  3. [Image Indulgence Letter]
  4. [ImageCity of Wittenberg]
  5. [ImageWittenberg University]
  6. [Image Luther before Charles Vat Worms]
  7. [Image Peasant's War]
  8. [Primary Source The TwelveArticles of the Peasants]
  9. [Primary Source Anabaptists:The Schleitheim Confession, 1527]
  10. [Primary Source Peace of Augsburg]
  1. Calvin and Calvinism
  2. [Primary Source Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion]
  3. [Primary Source Geneva]
  1. The Reformation in England
  2. [Image Henry VIII]
  3. [Primary Source Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533]
  4. [Primary Source Act of Supremacy]
  5. [Primary Source ThomasMore, Utopia]
  6. [Primary Source The Thirty-nine Articles (1563)]
  1. The Consolidation of Protestantism by 1560
*Read Sherman pp. 28-32.
8/30/12 / Chapter 2. Section 10. Catholicism Reformed and Reorganized pp. 93-98
  1. The Council of Trent
  2. [Primary Source Council ofTrent]
  1. The Counter Crusade
  2. [Image PaulIII]
  3. [Primary Source IgnatiusLoyola, Spiritual Exercises]
  4. [Primary Source Index of Prohibited Books]

8/31/12 / Chapter 2 Test
2005 Exam, FRQ 4 on Luther and Henry VIII
9/4/12 / Chapter 3 Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion 1560-1648, Section 11. The Opening ofthe Atlantic pp. 99-106
  1. The Portuguese in the East
  2. [Primary Source Vasco daGama, Round Africa to India, 1497-1498]
  1. The Discovery of America
  2. [Primary Source Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494]
  3. [Primary Source An AztecAccount of the Conquest of Mexico]
  4. [Primary Source Mining]
  5. [Primary Source Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522]
  6. [Primary Source John Cabot, Voyage to North America, 1497]
  7. [Primary Source Treatyof Tordesillas, 1494]
  1. The Spanish Empire in America
  2. [Primary Source The NewLaws of the Indies, 1542]
Read Sherman pp. 41-45 and answer chapter questions 1-3 on p. 45.
9/5/12 / Chapter 3, Section 12. The Commercial Revolution pp. 106-114
  • [Primary Source Thomas Mun, England's Treasure By Forraign Trade, 1664]
  • [Primary Source John Locke, Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money]
  1. Changes in Commerce and Production
  2. [Image Rouen]
  3. [Image Manila Galleon]
  1. Capital and Labor
  2. [Image Booktrade]
  1. Mercantilism
  2. [Image Russia Company]

9/6/12 / Chapter 3, Section 13. Changing Social Structures pp. 114-120
  • [Image Freeholders]
  • [Image Peasants]
  1. Social Classes
  2. [Image French nobles]
  3. [Image Grands seigneurs]
  4. [Image German merchant]
  5. [Image Urban elite]
  6. [Primary Source Trade guilds]
  7. [Image Smallretailers]
  8. [Primary Source Poorin17th-centuryFrance]
  9. [Image Charitablerelief: Foundling Hospital]
  1. Social Roles of Education and Government
  2. [Image Leyden]
  3. [Image Geneva]
  1. Eastern and Western Europe

9/7/12 / Chapter 3, Section 14. The Wars of Catholic Spain: The Netherlands and England pp. 121-130
  1. The Ambitions of Philip II
  2. [Image The Escorial]
  3. [Image Dukeof Alva]
  4. [Primary Source Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572]
  1. The Revolt of the Netherlands
  2. [Primary Source Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581]
  1. The Involvement of England
  2. [Image Mary Queen of Scots]
  3. [Image Unionof Utrecht]
  4. [Primary Source Francis Pretty,Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round The World, 1580]
  5. [Primary Source Queen Elizabeth I, Speech Against the Spanish Armada, 1588]
  1. The Results of the Struggle
  2. [Primary Source Charter of the DutchWest India Company, 1621]

9/10/12 / Chapter 3, Section 15. The Disintegration and Reconstruction of France pp. 130-135
  1. Political and Religious Disunity
  2. [Map Religious and Political Divisions of France, 1585-1598]
  1. The Civil and Religious Wars
  2. [Image Henry of Bourbon, Kingof Navarre]
  3. [Image Procession of Catholic League, 1590]
  4. [Image Duke of Parma Resupplies Paris, 1590]
  5. [Image DukeofGuise]
  6. [Image JeanBodin]
  1. The End of the Wars: Reconstruction under Henry IV
  2. [Image Henry IV Enters Paris, 1594]
  3. [Primary Source Edict ofNantes]
  4. Cardinal Richelieu
  5. [Primary Source Cardinal Richelieu]

9/11/12 / Chapter 3, Section 16. The Thirty Year’s War, 1618-1648: The Disintegration of Germany pp. 135-143
  1. Background of the Thirty Years' War
  1. The Four Phases of the War
  2. [Image Defenestrationof Prague]
  3. [Image Gustavus Adolphus]
  4. [Primary Source The Destructionof Magdeburg, 1631]
  1. The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
  2. [Primary Source Treaty ofWestphalia]
*Read Sherman pp. 58-60 (Holborn; Friedrich; Anderson).
9/12/12 / Chapter 3 Test
2004 Exam, DBQ on attitudes towards poor
9/13/12 / Chapter 4, The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640-1715, Section 17. The Grande Monarque and the Balance of Power pp. 145-148
[ImagesRise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy]
9/14/12 /
  1. Chapter 4, Section 18. The DutchRepublic pp. 149-155Dutch Civilization and Government
  2. [Primary Source AnnaMaria van Schurman]
  3. [Image Anna Maria van Schurman]
  4. [Primary Source The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581]
  5. [Primary Source William Temple: Observations upon the United Provinces of theNetherlands]
  6. [Primary Source Charter of the Dutch West India Company]
  1. Foreign Affairs: Conflict with the English and French

9/18/12 / Chapter 4, Section 19.Britain: The Civil War pp. 155-162
  • [Primary Source The English Revolution]
  1. England in the Seventeenth Century
  2. [Primary Source James I, True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598]
  3. [Primary Source James Ion divine right of kings] ]
  1. Background to the Civil War: Parliament and the Stuart Kings
  2. [Image Charles I]
  3. [Primary Source Petition of Right, 1628]
  4. [Primary Source Charles I : Declaration of Sports]
  5. [Image A Cavalier]
  6. [Primary Source Solemn League and Covenant]
  1. The Emergence of Cromwell
  2. [Primary Source Charles I, Speech to Parliament on the Occasion of his Trial for Treason]
  3. [Image Charles I beheaded]
  4. [Image Thomas Fairfax]
  5. [Primary Source Statement of the Levellers, 1649]
  6. [Primary Source Putney Debates]
  7. [PrimarySourceCommonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653]
  8. [Image Cromwell Portrait]
  9. [Primary Source Hobbes,Leviathan, Chaps 13-14]
  10. [Image Thomas Hobbes]
*Read Sherman pp.60-61 (Russell; Monter).
9/19/12 / Chapter 4, Section 20. Britain: The Triumph of Parliament pp. 162-169
  1. The Restoration, 1660-1688: The Later Stuarts
  2. [Image Charles II]
  3. [Image JamesII]
  4. [Image Great Fire of London]
  1. The Revolution of 1688
  2. [Image William III and Mary II]
  3. [Image Anne 1705]
  4. [Primary Source Declaration of Right,February 1689]
  5. [Primary Source English Billof Rights, 1689]
  6. [Image Battle of the Boyne]
  7. [Primary Source Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690, selections]
  8. [Image JohnLocke]
*Read Sherman pp. 69-70, “The English Revolution 1688-1689” by George Macaulay Trevelyan.
9/20/12 / Chapter 4, Section 21. The France of Louis XIV, 1643-1715: The Age of Absolutism pp. 169-181
  1. French Civilization in the Seventeenth Century
  1. The Development of Absolutism in France
  2. [Image Louis XIV]
  3. [Image The Fronde]
  4. [Image JulesMazarin]
  5. [Primary Source Bossuet on kingship]
  6. [Image Bossuet]
  1. Government and Administration
  2. [Image Versailles in 17th century]
  3. [Primary Source Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697]
  4. [Primary Source Reading Guide Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697]
  5. Primary Source Duc de Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV]
  1. Economic and Financial Policies: Colbert
  2. [Image Jean-Baptiste Cobert]
  3. [Primary Source Colbert, Memorandum on Trade, 1664]
  1. Religion: The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685
  2. [Primary Source Revocation ofEdict of Nantes]
*Read Sherman p. 69, “Absolutism: Myth and Reality” by G. Durand and answer chapter question #1 on p. 72.
9/21/12 / Chapter 4, Section 22. The Wars of Louis X1V: The Peace of Utrecht
  1. Before 1700
  2. [Image Frenchsoldier]
  1. The War of the Spanish Succession
  2. [Image Gibraltar]
  1. The Peace of Utrecht
  2. [Map Utrecht and Rastadt, 1713]