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COURSE OUTLINE
Unit 1: The West Takes Form (3 weeks)
-factors behind European growth
-growth of the state; consolidation of power of monarchs
-religious, political, social factors behind the Crusades
-changing nature of papacy’s political and religious authority;
-popular and learned cultures of High Middle Ages
-heretical and orthodox spiritual movements
-politicization of the church
-socioeconomic impact of Black Death
-urban and agrarian revolts and unrest
Required Reading: Text - Chapters 9-11
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (Boccaccio’s Decameron-“The Black
Death”)
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essays
Modern European Map poster project
Unit Test
Unit 2: The Renaissance (4 weeks)
-ideas and application of humanism to the social context of Italian city-states
-development of Renaissance culture in Italy and in the rest of Europe
-impact of classical models on Renaissance thought and art
-role of patronage in Renaissance art
-technological and cultural preconditions to European exploration
-colonial, political, and economic developments
-effects of Columbian exchange on Old and New Worlds
-European attitudes toward New World peoples and cultures
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 12-13
The Prince by Machiavelli – critical book review
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Pico
della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man, Nicola Pisano The Annunciation,
Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus)
Works by Michelangelo, Donatello, da Vinci, Bellini, Bruegel, van Eyck, Durer, etc.
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essays
Art slideshow-Renaissance
Renaissance art research project—(artists and artwork) written analysis and presentation
Unit Test
Unit 3: The Reformation and Age of Religious Wars (3 weeks)
-medieval context of popular piety and reform ideas preceding Luther’s call for change
-imperial political problems that contributed to the spread of reformed religion in the
Empire
-different application and development of reformed religion in England, France, and
other states
-Catholic Reformation’s purpose and impact
-effect of Reformation on society, morality, and community life
-religion’s impact on political action in Spain, France, and England
-factors that caused and contributed to the Thirty Years’ War
-key elements in baroque artistic and political culture
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 14-15
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and other
works, St. Bart’s Massacre, Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants, St Ignatius of Loyola:
Spiritual Exercises)
Lecture Notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essays
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
Unit Test
Unit 4: Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and a Revolution in World-View (4 weeks)
-ideas and application of absolute monarch in Louis XIV’s France
-impact of Parliament in 17th century English politics
-fortunes of Eastern and Central European states after the Thirty Years’ War
-importance of international commerce in European economics and politics
-broad historical preconditions and environment leading to Copernicus’s theoretical
explorations
-impact of new astronomy on the European intellectual tradition
-development of scientific methods, disciplines, and standards
-relationship between change and the prevalent courtly and religious culture
-effects of science on social and philosophical order
-common elements and developments Enlightenment philosophy
-spread of Enlightenment ideas through popular culture and art
-relationship between Enlightenment philosophy and royal government
-role of warfare in 18th century state and empire-building
-impact of agricultural change on populations and social structures
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 16-18
Candide by Voltaire – critical book review
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (Life of Gustavus Vassa, Origins of
Atlantic Slave Trade, Hernan Cortes-from Second Letter to Charles V, Shakespeare’s
Sonnets, A briefe account of a strange & unusuall Providence of God befallen to
Elizabeth Knap of Groton, Louis XIV by Rigaud, The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and
Abjuration of 1633 , René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637), Thomas Kuhn: The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?, 1784,
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Daniel Defoe: On the Education of Women)
Lecture Notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
Art slideshow on Baroque, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essays
Unit Test
Unit 5: French Revolution and Napoleon; Politics from 1814-1848 (3 weeks)
-impact of Enlightenment philosophy upon pre-Revolutionary French political culture
-how different classes experienced and participated in the Revolution
-causes and results of Revolutionary sociopolitical changes
-Napoleon’s impact on France and Europe
-impact of Revolutionary examples and ideals
-major purposes and achievements of Congress of Vienna
-political and cultural expressions of conservatism, romanticism, nationalism, liberalism,
and socialism
-political development of post-Napoleonic regimes to 1848
-common and particular causes behind the uprisings of 1848 for individual European
states
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 19-20
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essay
Unit Test
Unit 6: Revolutions in Politics and Industry (3 weeks)
-18th century Europe’s social, political, economic, and cultural preconditions for
industrialization
-relationship between science, technology, and a culture of innovation
-reasons for Britain’s lead in industrial development; spread of industrialization in
European nations
-effects of industrialization and urbanization upon European society and philosophy
-function of class in political philosophy and action
-origins of Crimean War
-causes and effects of German and Italian unification
-problems of Europe’s multi-ethnic empires
-role of liberal ideas in political development of United States, Britain, France, and
Russia
-factors distinguishing the “second industrial revolution”
-rise and spread of industrial middle-class values
-how Europeans dealt with urbanization’s challenges and changes
-impact of science and secularism on Western cultural development
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 21-23
Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist – critical movie review
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (The Division of Poland, 1772, 1793,
1795, Catherine the Great, Happy Accidents of the Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard,
Thomas Jefferson on slavery and Blacks, Comparing Revolutionary Declarations, James
Madison’s Speech Calling for Amendments to the Constitution, The Origins of the Industrial
Revolution in Great Britain, Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835,
Child Labor in Britain, 1750-1850)
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essay
Unit Test
Unit 7: Imperialism, War, and Revolution (3 weeks)
-cultural and intellectual developments of the fin de siecle with their predecessors
-imperialism’s causes and impact on the West and the world
-common problems facing turn-of-the-century European democracies and autocracies
-contributing factors to the outbreak of war in 1914
-development of the war in terms of popular opinion and propaganda
-ways in which the war affected women, labor, industry, and military life
-causes of the two Russian Revolutions in 1917
-reasons behind the terms of the Paris Peace Settlement
-impact of the war on Europe’s cultural, social, and economic development
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 24-25
Erick Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front – critical book review
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (German Unification, 1848-1871, Gustave
Courbet: Art Images, Tsar Alexander II, Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism, The
Spread of Industrialization, Women of Hastings & St. Leonards, Memoirs of World War
One, Vladimir Illyich Lenin: What is to be Done, 1902)
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
Art slideshow-Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism,
Postimpressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Social Realism, and others
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essay
Unit Test
Unit 8: World Between Wars and World War II (3 weeks)
-Europe’s changing place in international politics after World War I
-mass society’s contribution to personal and cultural values
-problems facing democratic developments in East and Central Europe, particularly in
Germany
-the ideologies and expressions of Fascism and Communism
-impact of social, political, and economic change upon the art and literature of the 1920s
-political and social context of the Depression
-consequences of Stalin’s rise to power and policies
-Hitler’s and Nazism’s appeal and effects in Germany and throughout Europe
-emergence of fascist and antifascist rivalries in Spain, France, and across Europe
-roles of Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union in precipitating the Second
World War
-causes and effects of German victories on Europe and the West
-global impact of the war, especially in terms of Soviet, American, and Japanese
involvement
-factors leading the victory in the European and Pacific Theaters
-rise and development of bipolar politics in the postwar world
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 26-28
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (Surrealism, John Maynard Keynes: The
Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, The Spanish Civil War, The 1938 Munich
Agreement, Holocaust Testimonies, Posters and Propaganda)
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Historiography reading: Historians’ essays from Sherman on a theme from this unit
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essay
Unit Test
Unit 9: 1945 to the Present (3 weeks)
-trends in intellectual and mass Western culture developing during the Cold War
-process of postwar Western political and economic restructuring
-factors contributing to the West and particularly Europe’s changing role in the world
-rationale and success of rebuilding the Soviet bloc
-how social, political, and economic problems forced change in the West after 1968
-major developments in recent Western culture and society
-causes and consequences of communism’s fall in Europe
-Europe’s evolution and opportunities after the cold war’s end
-particular problems confronting European social, political, and economic development
within the contemporary Western and world orders
Required Reading: Text – Chapters 29-30
Selected Documents and Interpretive Readings (The Founding of Israel, The Origins of
the Cold War, John F. Kennedy’s national address about the Cuban Missile Crisis,
October 22, 1962, Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, January 30, 1972, Gorbachev and
Reagan, The Gulf War)
Art slideshow- Nazi exhibition of “Degenerate Art,” Soviet Art 1919-1930, Socialist Realism,
modernisms, postmodernism
Lecture notes and class discussion of topics
Appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and statistical materials
In-Class DBQ and Free-Response Essay
Unit Test
Mock Exam—Saturday, April 18
Review for AP Exam – 2 weeks
AP Exam – Friday, May 8, 2015