ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY

UNIT IV: Changing European Thoughts and the New World View  

TEXT READINGS:

Chapter 18, “The Scientific Revolution” (pp. 594-627) and Chapter 19, “The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century” (pp. 628-659).

VOCABULARY: [Due  October 10, 2007]

1) Copernican hypothesis, 2) Cartesian absolutism, 3) law of inertia, 4) Aristotelian world-view, 5) empirical method, 6) deductive reasoning, 7) rationalism, 8) General Will, 9) secular, 10) skepticism, 11) tabula rasa, 12) Parlement of Paris, 13) Enlightenment, 14) enlightened absolutism, 15) philosophes

IDENTIFICATION: [Due  October 10, 2007]

1) Diderot, 2) Bayle, 3) Kepler, 4) Galileo, 5) Bacon, 6) Descartes, 7) D'Holbach, 8) Newton, 9) Montesquieu, 10) Voltaire, 11) Copernicus, 12) Brahe, 13) Madame du Chatelet, 14) Madame Geoffrin, 15) Catherine the Great, 16) Frederick the Great, 17) Maria Theresa, 18) Louis XV, 19) Joseph II

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (How to do them)

[#'s 1-5 Due: October 10, 2007] [#'s 6-10 Due: October 15, 2007]

[#'s 11-15 Due: October 18, 2007] [#'s 15-28 Due October 22, 2007]

  1. Describe the concept of the universe developed in medieval Europe based on the ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy.

  2. Describe the new concept of the universe presented by Nicholas Copernicus in the sixteenth-century contrasting it with the medieval view.

  3. Describe the contributions and the significance of Isaac Newton to science and Europe's understanding of the natural world in the eighteenth century.

  4. Discuss the causes of the Scientific Revolution in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  5. Describe the cultural transformation that was intertwined with the developments of the Enlightenment.

  6. Discuss the concept known as "enlightened absolutism" and the reasons it was viewed as enlightened government and favored as a system by many of the philosophes.

  7. Describe the practice of absolutism in France in the reign of Louis XV. (How did the practice of absolute monarchy change under this monarch who followed Louis XIV?)

  8. Discuss the influence and consequences of the Enlightenment upon European thought and its view of the world.

  9. Discuss the influence and consequences of the Enlightenment upon European thought and its view of the world.

  10. Describe Voltaire's ideas on religion and morality as contained in the selection from his Philosophical Dictionary.

  11. Describe the European agricultural system and discuss its impact upon life prior to the Agricultural Revolution of the eighteenth century.

  12. Describe the agricultural practices of most of Europe in the pre-1700 era as established in the medieval period.

  13. Define what is meant by the "agricultural revolution" and describe the practices that transformed European agriculture in the 1700’s.

  14. Discuss the earliest impact of the new methods of the Agricultural Revolution as practiced in the Low Countries and England.

  15. Define the enclosure movement and discuss its impact upon the people of western Europe.

  16. Describe the population patterns of Europe prior to the eighteenth century (1700’s).

  17. Discuss the changing patterns of population in Europe that emerged in the eighteenth century.

  18. Describe cottage industry and the putting-out system as practiced in Europe prior to the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth century.

  19. Describe the practices of the textile industry in pre-industrial Europe.

  20. Discuss the impact of the practice of mercantilism upon international relations in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century (i.e., from the end of the Thirty Years’ War, 1648, through the Seven Years’ War, 1763).

  21. Describe the developing lifestyle found in the British colonies in North America.

  22. Discuss the reasons for the loss of the Battle of Quebec by France and the consequences of that defeat.

  23. Discuss the growth of foreign trade and its impact upon the economic practices of Europe.

  24. Describe the developing lifestyle found the Spanish colonies in the Americas.

  25. Describe the economic theories and ideas of Adam Smith as presented in The Wealth of Nations.

  26. Discuss the practice of African slavery as it is described in the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano.

  27. Compare the ideas of Moses Mendelssohn with those held by the philosophes of the French Enlightenment.

  28. Describe Voltaire’s ideas on religion and morality as contained in the selection from his Philosophical Dictionary.

 

ASSESSMENT: TBA