Week 8 - The Reformation, October 15-19 (End of
first quarter & mid semester break, 10/19)
*Leading
questions: What were the most
important differences between Catholicism and Protestantism in the sixteenth
century? In what ways do these differences explain the appeal of each faith and
the causes of the Reformation? How might the Reformation be related to the
Renaissance?
Persons: Johan Tetzel, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ignatius Loyola
Terms: Indulgences, Justification by Faith, Priesthood of all
believers, predestination, the Society of Jesus, Baroque Art
Short answer questions: What caused the Protestant Reformation? How
did the Renaissance influence the Reformation? How did the Reformation
influence the status of women? How did Catholicism respond to the Protestant
Reformation?
Week 9 - The Thirty Years'
War, October 22-26
*Leading
questions: What were more important
factors to the turmoil in Europe between 1560 and 1660: religion or politics?
How might the religious and political turmoil of this time period be related to
the Renaissance and Reformation? What were the outcomes of the Thirty Years'
War?
Persons: Henry IV of
France, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Cardinal Richelieu, James I, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas
Hobbes, Pieter Brueghel
Terms: The House of Commons,
The Leviathan, the English Civil War, the English Bill of Rights, “Glorious
Revolution,” Constitutional Monarchy
Short answer questions:
What were the causes of the turmoil between 1560 and 1660? What were the
effects of the Thirty Years’ War?
Week 10 - Aristocracy and
Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century, October 29-November 2
*Leading
Questions: What conditions
facilitated the rise of monarchical absolutism in the 17th-century? How did
absolute monarchies build on past forms of politics, or represent new forms of
power? What policies did 17th-century monarchs use to this end? How might
mercantilist doctrines appeal to them? Choose one of the "Enlightened
Despots" and discuss his or her significance in modernizing their empires.
What explains the emergence of capitalism? What did family life look like? How
did the 17th-century family reflect broader social, economic and political
aspects of the 17th century?
Persons: Louis XIV, Saint-Simon,
John Locke
Terms: Aristocracy,
Absolutism
Week 11 - The Scientific
Revolution, November 5-9 (Head's Holiday, 11/9 - No school)
*Leading
questions: How did the science of the
17th century constitute a break from the past? What challenges did 17th-century
scientists face, and how did they handle these problems? Choose a key scientist
and explain the significance of his or her work in the advancement of knowledge
in the modern world. How does one explain the rise of the Scientific Revolution
in the 17th rather than the 16th or 18th century?
Persons: Copernicus, Rene Descartes,
Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe
Terms: Ptolemaic Theory, The
Heliocentric Theory, The Papal Inquisition of 1633, Heresy, Alchemy, Empiricism
Short answer questions: How
did the science of the 17th century constitute a break from the
past? How did science reflect medieval continuities? How did the Scientific
Revolution influence women?
Week 12 - The Enlightenment, November 12-16
*Leading
Questions: What are the core values
and attitudes of the European Enlightenment? How do these ideas relate to
18th-century societies and institutions? How did the policies of 18th-century
rulers reflect the Enlightenment? What hindrances did monarchs face who desired
more enlightened rule? What are the legacies of the Enlightenment and the
Scientific Revolution in the modern world? Choose an artist, author, or
musician, and assess their contributions to modern intellectual and cultural
histories.
Persons: The Philosophes, Immanuel
Kant, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Jacques Rousseau,
Terms: Enlightened despots
(Frederick the Great, Joseph II, Catherine the Great), the Social Contract, the
“dark side” of the Enlightenment
Short answer questions: Was
enlightened absolutism real or just “window-dressing”? How did the
Enlightenment affect women?
Week 13 - Politics and
Society in the Ancien Regime, November 19-21,
Thanksgiving Break, 11/22-25
*Leading
Questions: What were the attitudes
and lifestyle of 18th-century French aristocracy like? What was life like for
other groups in pre-Revolutionary France? How did their assumptions differ from
our own? How might they be similar? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the
Old Regime. What were some of the possible consequences of aristocratic
attitudes toward, peasants, slaves and women? What options seem available to
women in mid-18th French politics and society? In what ways might the interests
of men and women clash? In what ways did competing groups and historical
conditions put pressure on aristocrats? What were the assets and liabilities of
18th-century aristocrats in the face of pressures to diminish their position
and influence? Was revolution avoidable?
Terms: Ancien regime, “mental
conservatism,” “resurgent aristocracy”
Short answer questions:
What was life like in the Ancien Regime?
Week 14 - The French
Revolution, November 26-30
*Leading
Questions: What factors help explain
why this revolution occurred in France? What appears to have motivated many of
the revolutionaries? In what ways did the French Revolution mark a break from
the past? Choose a key aspect and assess its role as a turning point in the
French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars that followed. What are the legacies
of the French Revolution in France, Europe and elsewhere in the world?
Persons: Louis XVI, Marie
Antoinette, Arthur Young, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, Olympe de Gouges, Maximilien
Robespierre, Fracnois-Xavier Joliclerc, Henri de la Rochjacquelein
Terms: The Estates General,
the cahiers, the Tennis Court Oath, the Bastille, the Great Fear, the August
Decrees, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, The Declaration of
the Rights of Women, the Counterrevolution, the Reign of Terror
Short answer questions:
What are the origins of the French Revolution? How did the French Revolution
affect women? What is the legacy of the French Revolution?
Week 15 - The Age of
Napoleon, December 3-7
*Leading
questions: What accounts for the rise
of Napoleon to power and how effectively did he exercise power? What is the
legacy of Napoleon? In what ways did Napoleon preserve and support the
principles of the French Revolution? In what ways did he undermine those
principles?
Persons: Napoleon, Madame
de Remusat, Joseph Fouche
Terms: The Directory, the
Consulate, coup d’etat, Plebiscite, the Napoleonic Code, The Concordat, Waterloo
Short answer questions:
What is the legacy of Napoleon? How did the Napoleonic Code affect men and
women?
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