AP World History

January 5-9, 2009

The Transformation of Europe

Monday           Video:  Science versus Religion

                        HW: Read Chapter 24:  The Transformation of Europe

                        HW:  Chapter summary essay. (Wednesday)

1.      After reading the entire chapter, create a one sentence THESIS for the chapter.

2.      For each of the following sections below write a one paragraph synopsis of the major ideas.  Each paragraph MUST have a unifying THESIS and a minimum of three supporting pieces of evidence.

3.      Sections:

A.     The Fragmentation of Western Europe

B.     The Consolidation of Sovereign States

C.     Early Capitalist Society

D.     Science and Enlightenment

HW: Questions: What were the primary theological concerns of Luther’s challenge to the Church?  What were the Church theological rebuttals?

Tuesday           Discussion:  The Fragmentation of Western Europe

                  In class: Euan Cameron, “What was the Reformation”? (p. 34)

1.              How did the protest by churchmen and scholars, along with the ambitions of politically laymen, become the essence of the Reformation?

2.              According to Cameron what were the causes of the Reformation?

Primary Sources:

            A. Marin Luther, Justification by Faith

HW: What were the fundamental differences between absolute monarchy and constitutional government?

HW: How did European monarchs increase their power in the early modern era?  What are the common characteristics of the new monarchs?

Wednesday      Discussion:  Consolidation of Sovereign States and Early Capitalist Society

                        Primary Sources:

A.     James I, Powers of the Monarch…. (25)

B.     House of Commons, Powers of Parliament…(26)

C.     Adam Smith (text 657)

HW:  Describe the contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.  In what ways can we say that “Isaac Newton symbolized the scientific revolution”?  What is his role in the Enlightenment?

HW:  What were the principle concerns of the philopsophes of the Enlightenment?  What solution did they propose?

Thursday          Discussion:  Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Source:

 A. Lester Crocker, “The Age of Enlightenment” (60)

1.      Why were the philosphes so concerned with Christianity and the Church?

B. Dick Teresi, “Islamic and Western Science….” (59)

            1. What debt do Western scientists owe to Islamic sources?

Friday              Millennium:  The Seventeenth Century—Century of the Telescope

HW:  Read Chapters 25:  New Worlds:  The Americas and Oceania

 ( Monday)

HW:  Question:  Examine the world of trade in the Americas.  What were its economic and social implications?  How did trade in the America fit into the larger trading world of the Europeans?

HW:  Chapter summary essay. After reading the entire chapter, create a one sentence THESIS for the chapter.

1.      For each of the following sections below write a one paragraph synopsis of the major ideas.  Each paragraph MUST have a unifying THESIS and a minimum of three supporting pieces of evidence.

2.      Sections:

a.       Colliding Worlds

b.      Colonial Societies in the Americas

c.       Europeans in the Pacific

                        HW: Chapter 23 Quiz