"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.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Week 10: A Century of Religious Warfare (1559-1648)
Quiz#4: Covers Protestant and Catholic Reformations. Key terms and persons will be assessed in-class on Day 3; online portion of quiz will go live Thursday, 10/30 at 3:30PM and will remain open until Monday, 11/3 at midnight.
Halloween! Friday, 10/31; special class schedule; please wear historically accurate costumes.
Day 1, Monday, October 27: The historiography on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
In-class: Review the secondary sources on the Reformation in groups and prepare for class discussion.
Homework for Day 2: NO new homework, except to review notes on the primary and secondary sources of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation; continue independent research in preparation for historiography assignment and use of long period on Day 2.
Homework for Day 3: Read "Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648," in Western Civilization, pp. 346-348 (up until the "Thirty Years' War") and prepare notes on the following terms.
Key terms: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Council of Blood, and the Spanish Armada.
Day 2: Independent Research.
Long Periods: Come prepared to work in the library during the long period on independent research and historiography.
Homework for Day 3: Read "Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648," in Western Civilization, pp. 346-348 (up until the "Thirty Years' War") and prepare notes on the following terms.
Key terms: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Council of Blood, and the Spanish Armada.
Day 3: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648.
In-class: Read and discuss primary source, "Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "Civil War in France" (handout), and the homework reading on the religious wars.
Homework for Day 4: Read "The Thirty Years' War," in Western Civilization, pp. 348-355, prepare notes on the following terms, persons and questions.
Key terms: The Defenestration of Prague, the Peace of Westphalia, and the balance of power.
Key persons: Wallenstein, and Gustavus Adolphus.
Question#1: How did the nature of warfare change during the Thirty Years' War and why?
Question #2: What happened to life after the Reformation and why?
Day 4: The Thirty Years War.
In-class: Read and discuss the secondary sources, Hajo Holborn, "A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War," and Carl J. Friedrich, "A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War" (handout), and the homework reading and questions.
Homework for Week 11: Continue to research and work on historiography assignments.
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