AP European History
AP European History
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS: 2014
Students will complete a 3 to 5 page typed, double spaced book review, complete Vocabulary terms, study for the map quiz (which we will have on the first day), and prepare an outline for the first 2 chapters. (Chapters 12 and 13)
A written summary of the book will be submitted the first week of school. The summary is not a book report but a discussion of the historical setting and events. The final grade will be based upon a written book review and an oral presentation.
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NO PLAGIARIZING!!!! Book reviews will be checked with a plagiarizing program. Plagiarizing will lead to the removal of the student from the class.
Below is a list of books covering different topics in European History.
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James Gaines Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton Victoria’s Daughters by Jerrold Packard The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World by Paul Robert Walker Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Voltaire, Candide
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Primo Levi, If This Is A Man
George Orwell, 1984
Read Chapters 12 and 13 and prepare an outline of those chapters. The outlines will be due on the first day of school. NO late outlines will be accepted. 50 points possible.
Here is a sample outline from a historical textbook:
SAMPLE OUTLINE FOR CHAPTER #1
I. The evolution of Homo sapiens
A. The hominids
1. Australopithecus
a. Appeared in east Africa about four million to
one million years ago
b. Walked upright on two legs; well-developed
hands
c. Stone tools; fire later
2. Homo erectus
a. 2.5 million to two hundred thousand years ago,
east Africa
b. Large brain; sophisticated tools; definitely
knew how to control fire
c. Developed language skills in well-coordinated
hunts of large animals
d. Migrated to Asia and Europe; established
throughout by two hundred thousand years
ago
B. Homo sapiens; evolved as early as two hundred thousand
years ago
1. Brain with large frontal regions for conscious and
reflective thought
2. Spread throughout Eurasia beginning more than one
hundred thousand years ago,
3. Ice age land bridges enabled them to populate other
continents
4. The natural environment
a. Homo sapiens used knives, spears, bows, and
arrows
b. Brought tremendous pressure on other species
II. Paleolithic society
A. Economy and society of hunting and gathering peoples
1. Economic life
a. Prevented individuals from accumulating
private property
Etc., etc.
IDENTIFICATIONS / VOCABULARY
Define each of the following and turn in on the first day of school. Give a COMPLETE definition and relate the term’s significance to European History. NO late terms will be accepted. This is worth 80 points.
1)Roman Empire; 2)Fall of Rome; 3)Germanic tribes; 4)Byzantine Empire; 5)Dark Ages; 6)Angles and Saxons; 7)Franks; 8)Charlemagne; 9)Holy Roman Empire; 10)Muslims, 11)Slavs, Magyars, and Vikings; 12)feudalism; 13)lord (landlord); 14)vassal; 15)fief; 16)serf; 17)manor (manorialism); 18)monasteries and monks; 19)St. Thomas Aquinas; 20)Scholasticism; 21)Roman Catholic Church; 22)Christendom; 23)Pope; 24)bishops and archbishops; 25)cardinals; 26)canon law; 27)seven sacraments; 28)excommunication; 29)interdiction; 30)First Estate, Second Estate, and Third Estate; 31)Crusades; 32)guild system; 33)master craftsman, journeyman, and apprentice; 34)bourgeoisie / burgesses / burghers; 35)Renaissance; 36)humanism. 37)monarchy; 38)oligarchy; 39)aristocracy; 40)republic.
Map of Modern Europe: We will have a MAP Test on the First Day of School. It will be worth 50 points.
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You will need to know countries, rivers, and seas. You DO NOT have to know capitals.
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