For Day 1, Monday, November 12, 2016:
Please prepare a written response to question #1 in Sherman, Western Civilization, p. 81. Use the primary and secondary source materials in chapter 6 on the "Scientific Revolution" to prepare your response to the question. We will discuss this in class and then TURN IN your answers at the end of class.
QUESTIONS:
1. What were the main ways in which the science of the seventeenth century constituted a break from the past?
- What were some of the main problems facing seventeenth-century scientists in making this break?
- How did they handle these problems?
For Day 2:
Please prepare the following readings and the accompanying questions in Sherman, Western Civilization, for discussion:
1. Introduction: "The Enlightenment," pp. 97-98.
2. Secondary Source: H. M. Scott, "The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism," pp. 109-110.
3. Primary Source: Frederick William, "A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia," p. 65.
4. Primary Source: Immanuel Kant, "What Is the Enlightenment?" p. 98.
5. Primary Source: Baron d'Holbach, "The System of Nature," p. 99.
For Day 3:
Please prepare the following readings and the accompanying questions in Sherman, Western Civilization, for discussion:
1. Secondary Source: Carl L. Becker, "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers," pp. 108-109.
2. Secondary Source: Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, "Women in the Salons," p. 109.
3. Primary Source: Voltaire, "Philosophical Dictionary: The English Model," pp. 101-102.
4. Primary Source: Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," p. 102.
5. Primary Source: Jean Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract," pp. 103-104.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Course Description
Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.
The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.
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