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.

Please email me if you have any questions.

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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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