Monday, December 21, 2009

HW 12/23 Ch. 23 Sec.1

Read Chapter 23 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due:

Period 7: Monday, January 4, 2010
Period 8: Tuesday, January 5, 2010


1. Define:
a. Old Regime
b. estates
c. Louis XVI
d. Marie Antoinette
e. Estates General
f. National Assembly
g. Great Fear

2. How was the bourgeoisie unlike other groups within the Third Estate?

3. Did France's system of Estates violate the principle of equality? Explain.

4. How did Louis XVI's weak leadership contribute to the growing crisis in France? Explain.

5. How did the women's march mark a turning point in the relationship between the king and the people?

6. After years of oppression what finally caused the French people to revolt?

7. Were changes in the French government inevitable? Explain using your knowledge of prior French government leading up to the revolt.

Friday, December 11, 2009

HW 12/11 Enlightenment Readings

Read the passages provided by Locke, Rousseau, Kant

Annotate the readings and focus on the following question as you annotate:

Which of the twelve Enlightenment characterisitics (from the powerpoint notes on Wed/Thurs) does each author highlight? Each author may highlight more than one characteristic.

1. You will turn in the readings with annotations
2. Write the characteristic(s) the author embodies as part of the annotations.
3. Assignments without characteristics listed within the reading will receive a zero.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Study Guide: Age of Exploration to Absolutism

Exam: Age of Exploration to Absolutism

Period 7: Wed, 12/9
Period 8: Thurs, 12/10

Castle Learning is available to you. The students who have performed the best on the exams so far have used the study guide as their primary source of studying and then castle learning to boost their multiple choice score.

Materials to Study:

Packet on Absolutism and Women of Nation States
Notes on Versailles Palace Powerpoint
Packet on English Constitutional Monarchy
Worksheet on Absolute Power of Rulers

Textbook Materials to Study:

Chapter 19, Section 1
Chapter 20, Sections 1, 4
Chapter 21, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Terms to Know:

Cartography
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Montezuma/Aztecs
Atahualpa/Incans
Columbus
Cortes
Pizzaro
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Circumnavigation
Conquistadors
Mercantilism
Commercial Revolution
Joint-stock company
Capitalism
Favorable balance of trade
Colonization
Econmienda System
Small Pox
Latin Colonial Hierarchy (mestizos, peninsulares, creoles etc)
Nation-State
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Isabella
Joan of Arc
Hapsburgs
James I
Peter the Great
Peter's Reforms
Louis XIV
Absolutism
Absolute Monarchy
Divine Right
Divine Right vs. Mandate of Heaven
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Intendents
Jean Baptiste-Colbert
Versailles Palace
Edict of Nantes
Skepticism
Boyar
Westernization
Habeus Corpos
Limited Monarchy
Guy Fawkes
English Constitutional Monarchy
English Civil War
Roundheads
Cavaliers
Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Charles II
Petition of Right
William & Mary
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta

Exam Format:

Mutltiple Choice
Short Answer

Short Answer:

What were the motives behind European exploration in the 1400's?

Why was Spain a leader in overseas exploration?

How did the Columbian Exchange impact global civilization?

What were the positive and negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange?

How did the rise of nation-states lead to the development of absolute monarchies?

To what extent is Louis XIV the perfect example of an absolute monarch?

How did Peter's attempt to westernize Russia affect Russian's opinions of Christians in western Europe?

How does a constitutional monarchy differ from an absolute monarchy?

How did Parliament try to limit the power of the English monarchy?

What political and social changes resulted from the English Civil War?