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AP Modern European History

AP Modern European History. Mr. David Lickey apcentral.collegeboard.com. Why Study European History in the Modern Era?. We are a product of the last 5 centuries of European History: economic, political, and social systems - PERSIA

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AP Modern European History

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  1. AP Modern European History Mr. David Lickey apcentral.collegeboard.com

  2. Why Study European History in the Modern Era? • We are a product of the last 5 centuries of European History: economic, political, and social systems - PERSIA • Most importantly (And this is my bias and the bias of this class): Intellectually European history produces the ideas that govern our lives: • “All men are created equal” • “No taxation without representation” • “The people united can never be defeated” • Freedom of press • Limited government (English Experience) • Legal protections of the individual – right to trial by jurry of peers for ex. • Not a racist celebration of white men, the intellectual tradition of the West are the ideas at center of world struggles for freedom and justice • Martin Luther King Jr.(Name, School, Dissertation on Paul Tillich, Movement, language [script. Shakes. Founding doc.], message) • Gandhi & Ho Chi Mihn • Class Addresses Many Really Big Questions:

  3. Scope of this Class: Big Questions Emergence of Europe from the so called “Dark ages” and its religious weltanschauung and the social hierarchy it implied

  4. The Emergence of Nation States: The Fall of Nation States? How did powerful centralized nation states replace decentralized agricultural princedoms of medieval Europe?

  5. How and why did Science Knock a Blow to Superstition & Prejudice How did science become the new source of Western peoples security? What were the implications for political and moral philosophy of the scientific revolution?

  6. How and Why did Absolutism Yield to Individual Liberty and Democratic Government?

  7. How did the Europeans Capture Half the World Then Loose It? And Now Repents of Her Sins

  8. Why did Europe Produce Two Great Antagonistic Economic Systems: Capitalism and Communism? And Do Either Address the Needs of the Current Moment?

  9. Why Did Europe Fight Two World Wars That Ended With Her As A Prize Between Two Superpowers?

  10. Characters: • Charles Dickens/Darwin • Karl Marx • Disraeli/Gladstone • Alfred Dryfus • Theodore Herzl • Bismark • Nicholas II • Emily Davidson • Rasputin • John D. Rockefeller • Nietzsche • Freud • Gen. Brunhardi • GavriloPrincip • David Lloyd George • Wodrow Wilson • Lenin • Stalin • Mussolini • Hitler • Chamberlin • Churchill • Onrad Adenauer • Charles du Gaulle • Ho Chi Mihn • Vaclav Havel • God • Thucydides • Plato • Aristotle • Epicurus • Cicero • Lucretius • St. Augustine • Petrarch • Machiavelli • Erasmus • Luther • Calvin • Elizabeth • Francis I • Louis XIV • Hobbes • Copernicus • Galileo • Descartes • Newton • Locke • Fredrick the Grea • Voltaire • Diderot • Rousseau • Emmanuel D=Sieyes • Mary Wollstoncraft • Robespierrre • David • Marat • Louis & Marie • Napoleon Pt. I & II • Duke of Wellington • Klemens von Metternich • Abraham Darby • James Watt • Adam Smith • Malthus and Recardo • Sam Smiles • Burke • John Stuart Mill • Alexis De Tocqueville

  11. Structure • Major Units/Topics • Pedistal: Continuity and Change to 1450 • Renaissance and Reformation • Religiouse Wars of the 16th & 17th Centuries • Early Modern Europe • French and Industrial Revolution • Restoration Europe • 19th Century State Building • Imperialism • WWI • Criminal States & WWII • Postwar Europe

  12. Summer Assignments • Discuss: With one to three neighbors-each person speaks-listen carefully while others speak-ask clarifying questions-be specific-be consise: • the purpose of Advanced Placement courses – according to the College Board and according to you • The scope of the AP Exam • The parts of the AP Exam • Resources to help you succed on the AP Exam contained in the “Course Guide”

  13. Review Summer Asignment #2 Discussion Questions: • What is the Thesis of Diamonds Book – be specific • What are the social and accademic difficulties in adssing this thesis? • What is the nature and structure of evidence Diamond organizes to support his thesis? • What is history? What can history be? What should it be/should not be?

  14. Geography is Destiny: “Optimal Fragmentation Principle”(p.411)

  15. Geography is Destiny Affix map to your note book and add the following: • Major Rivers, Bodies of Water, Peninsulas, Mountain Ranges, Climate Regions. • Rivers: Thames, Seine, Elbe, Oder, Danube, Tiber, Loire…. • Mountains: Alps, Pyrenees, Cambrian & Crampian Mts. (UK), Apennines, Carpathian Mts. • Georgraphic Features: Black Forrest, Bohemian Forrest, North European Plain • Seas: Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, North, Irish, Black, Baltic, Norwegian Seas + English Channel, Straight of Gibraltar, Dardanelles • Label and color the political map of modern Europe • How many countries are in Europe? • Where is the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe?

  16. Geography is Destiny

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