Course Description

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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.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Week 9 - The Religious Reformations of Europe

Monday through Friday, October 19-23.
*Admissions Open House, Friday, 10/23 (35-minute class schedule).
**Long periods: Meet with Catherine McKenzie in the LIC for introduction to the research process.
***Quiz#1.2: Key Terms and Persons from Weeks 5-8 (The casta system to the Renaissance), Friday in-class; open note; matching.
****Quiz#1.3: The Renaissance, goes live online on the upgraded version of Haiku on this Friday, 10/23, after school at 1:30PM and closes next Monday, 10/26 at midnight; open book, open note; please access through your Santa Fe Prep Gmail account.  
 
Day 1: Review of the Italian and Northern Renaissance.   
- In-class: Review the notes on life in the Renaissance, why the Renaissance started in Italy and how it spread throughout northern Europe; discuss the textbook reading and the secondary sources on the Renaissance.
- Homework for Day 2/3: Read and take SOAPSTONE notes on the first two primary sources from the Reformation primary source packet (see handout) by Johann Tetzel, "Indulgences," and by Martin Luther, "Justification by Faith"; also read "'Alone Before God': Religious Reform and Warfare, 1500-1648," pp. 323-334 (up until the section "Bringing Reform to the States in Switzerland) in the textbook The West in the World, take notes on the following key terms and questions, and prepare those notes to discuss the following questions below. 
- Key terms: Northern Renaissance, the Holy Roman Empire, Turkish Expansion, the Habsburg-Valois Wars, devotio moderna, indulgences, the 95 theses, Protestant, iconoclasm, transubstantiation, Lutheranism ("justification by faith," "the priesthood of all believers," and "sola scriptura"), the Diet of Worms, the Peasants' War, the Peace of Augsburg, and cuius regio, eius religio.
- Key persons: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Martin Guerre, Erasmus, Johann Tetzel, and Martin Luther.
- Question#1: What were the immediate and even deeper causes of the Protestant Reformation?
- Question#2: How did the ideas of Protestant theology appeal to different groups and classes of people?
- Question #3: How did the Catholic Church respond?
 
Day 2/3: Independent Research.
- Long Periods: Meet in the library LIC during the long period to work with Catherine McKenzie on independent research process.
 
Day 2/3: The Protestant Reformation.
- In-class: Discuss the first two primary sources by Johann Tetzel and Martin Luther.
- Homework for Day 4: Read "Bringing Reform to the States in Switzerland" and "The Catholic Reformation," pp. 334-345; take notes on the following key terms and persons, and prepare those notes for discussion of the following questions below.
- Key terms: Anabaptists, Calvinism ("predestination"), Huguenots, Church of England, the Catholic Reformation (or Counter-Reformation), the Society of Jesus, Baroque Art, and Council of Trent.
- Key persons: Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Cardinal Ximinez, Ignatius Loyola, and El Greco.
- Question#1: How did Protestantism spread throughout Europe in terms of ideas and influence on the new monarchies?  
- Question#2: How did the Catholic church respond to growing Protestantism?

Day 4: The Catholic (Counter-)Reformation.
- In-class: Review and discuss the spread of Protestantism and the Catholic Response to Protestantism.
- In-class: Key terms and persons identification and matching Quiz 1.2, for materials from week 5-8, from the casta system to the Renaissance.
- Homework: No new reading over the weekend; continue to work on independent research.
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