Monday through Friday, November 11-15, 2013
Quiz on Friday, 11/15, on Absolutism, Constitutionalism and the Age of Reason.
Day 1, Monday, 11/11: Review of Constitutionalism.
- In-class: Wrap up discussions of the English Civil War and Constitutionalism.
- Homework: Read the handout packet, "A New World of Reason and Reform," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 450-460 (up to and including the section on Descartes).
- Key question: What explains why some people in the "West" began to challenge the standard assumptions of their civilization (In other words, why did the scientific revolution emerge in Europe when it did, at a time when Europe was caught up in almost a century of religious wars and other conflicts)? Use three examples to illustrate and support your answer.
- Key terms: The Ptolemaic (or geocentric) model of the universe, the Copernican Revolution (and heliocentric model of the universe), the Roman inquisition, Neoplatonism, Hermetic doctrine, alchemy, experimental method (methodology of science/empirical method), inductive reasoning (and empirical investigation), deductive reasoning (and mathematical reasoning), Cartesian dualism.
- Key persons: Blaise Pascal, Galileo Galilei, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Plato, Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Boyle, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes.
Day 2: The Scientific Revolution
- In-class: Discuss the homework reading and question about the reasons behind the scientific revolution.
- Homework: Read the handout packet, "A New World of Reason and Reform," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 460-467 (up until the section on the Encyclopedia), and answer the following question:
- Key question: How did the scientific revolution lay the foundation for the Enlightenment?
- Key terms: Enlightenment, salon, orrery, skepticism, and the philosophes
- Key persons: Pierre Bayle, David Hume, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Emilie du Chatelet, and Condorcet.
Day 3: The Enlightenment
- In-class: Discuss the influence of the scientific revolution on the Enlightenment.
- Homework: Read the handout packet, "A New World of Reason and Reform," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 467-474, and answer the following question:
- Key question: What were the effects of the Enlightenment?
- Key terms: The encyclopedia, deism, separation of powers, enlightened absolutism (enlightened monarchs) physiocrats, laissez-faire, criminology/penology, the "woman question"
- Key persons: Rousseau, Adam Smith, Cesare Beccaria, and Madame Geoffrin.
"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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