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First Semester, Unit III

Unit 3: Absolutism, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment
Reading Guide and Calendar
Essential Questions
**Essential Questions will be distributed periodically through the
unit.**
Vocabulary to Identify:
Ch 15
Peter the Great
Margaret Cavendish
Witchcraft craze
Great Northern
Maria Winkelmann
Thirty Years War (and
States
Querelles des
phases)
Sultan Suleiman I the
femmes
Edict or Restitution
Magnificent
Descartes
Cardinal Richelieu
Stadholder
Rationalism
Peace of Westphalia
Stuarts
Cartesian dualism
Absolutism
English Civil War
Francis Bacon
Divine-right
Cromwell
Pascal
monarchy
Restoration
Ch 17
Bishop Jacques
Glorious Revolution
Enlightenment
Bossuet
Mannerism
Skepticism
Intendants
Baroque
Cultural relativism
Cardinal Mazarin
French Classicism
Philosophes
Frondes
Dutch Realism
Montesquieu
Louis XIV
Theater
Voltaire
Parliaments
Ch 16
Deism
Edict of
Scientific revolution
Diderot
Fontainebleau
Geocentric
Laissez-faire
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
conception
Economic liberalism
Louis XIVs Wars
Copernicus
Rousseau
Philip IV
Heliocentric
Romanticism
Frederick William the
Brahe
Salons
Great Elector
Kepler
Rococo
Frederick III/I
Galileo
Neoclassicism
Ivan IV the Terrible
Newton
Pogroms
Zemsky Sobor
Paracelsus
Pietism
Reading Guide Questions:
Chapter 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth
Century
1. What economic, social, and political crises did Europe experience in the
first half of the seventeenth century?
2. What was absolutism in theory, and how did its actual practice in
France reflect or differ from that theory?
3. What developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia
to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?
4. What were the main issues in the struggle between king and
Parliament in seventeenth-century England, and how were they
resolved?
5. How did the artistic and literary achievements of this era reflect the
political and economic developments of the period?

Chapter 16: Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific
Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science
1. What developments during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
contributed to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century?
2. What did Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton contribute to a new
vision of the universe, and how did it differ from the Ptolemaic
conception of the universe?
3. What did Paracelsus, Vesalius, and Harvey contribute to a scientific
view of medicine?
4. What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?
5. Why is Descartes considered the founder of modern rationalism?
6. How were the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread, and what
impact did they have on society and religion?
Chapter 17: The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment
1. What intellectual developments led to the emergence of the
Enlightenment? Who were the leading figures of the Enlightenment,
and what were their main contributions? In what type of social
environment did the philosophes thrive, and what role did women play
in that environment?
2. What innovations in art, music, and literature occurred in the
eighteenth century?
3. How did popular culture differ from high culture in the eighteenth
century?
4. How did popular religion differ from institutional religion in the
eighteenth century?
Reading Guide Calendar
Date
10/2223

Content
Witchcraft, 30 Years
War, Absolutism

10/26

Absolutism in
practice

10/2728

Other Absolutists

10/2930

English Civil War,

Glorious Revolution,
Family Trees
Art: Mannerism,
Baroque, French
Classicism, Dutch
Realism
Scientific Rev.

11/2

11/3-4

Activities
1. Brain map witchcraft craze
2. DBQ Quickfire: Witchcraft
3. Introduce 30 Years War & 4
phases
4. Watch TomRichie
1. Discuss Louis XIV & Richelieu
2. Causation, Identifying LEQ
questions
3. Doc Analysis: Richelieu
1. Discuss Russia, Austria, Italy,
Ottomans
2. Comparison, Identifying LEQ
Questions
3. Doc Analysis: Secondary
Sources 30 years war.
4. Map Analysis: 30 Years War
1. Family Trees
2. Discussion: English Civil War
& Glorious Revolution
1. Slideshow on Art
2. Doc Analysis Art
1. Whos Who of Scientific Rev.
2. Assign Speed Dating
Activity

HW/Reading
p. 410-425

p. 425-432

p. 432-439

p. 439-451
p. 451-459

p. 459-470

11/5-6

Medicine, Chemistry,
& Women

11/910

Enlightenment

11/1213

Culture, art and

music

11/16

Review

11/1718

TEST

1. Doc Analysis: Descartes v.

Newton
2. DBQ Quickfire
1. Discuss Philosophes & Their
ideas
2. Doc Analysis: The
Philosophes (inserts in
Spielvogel)
1. Discuss Rococo & music
2. Art Slideshow
3. Start Review
PERSIA Review
55 Question Multiple Choice Test
(Timed) with SAQ (Timed)

Catch Up

p. 473-484

p. 485-499
Finish Reading
Guide