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Welcome to AP European History! I am thrilled that you are participating in one of the most
interesting and challenging classes created. (Yes, I am somewhat biased!) If you love history, you will truly
enjoy this class! We will spend the 2009 – 2010 school year exploring 600 years of exciting and intriguing
European History as well as literature, art and music. We will also spend time preparing for the College Board
AP exam which is given at the beginning of May.
The Advance Placement Program provides highly motivated students the opportunity to complete a
class equivalent to Western Civilization, a freshman college course. This course is taught at the college
level. AP European covers the period from the Renaissance to the present. Additionally, the AP curriculum
emphasizes higher-level critical thinking skills, analytical reading, essay writing, primary source document
interpretation, and historiography.
Also, due to the volume of the material that must be covered before the exam in early May, the summer
assignment will help prepare you for the type of work that we will be doing this year, including the reading of
primary sources. It is vital that this assignment be thoughtfully and fully completed and finished by the first
class on August 31st, 2009. Failure to complete this assignment will result in a serious impact on your first
quarter grade. A copy of the summer assignment will also be on the PBHS website. I encourage all parents
and students to register their email addresses on edline at the beginning of the school year, which will provide
you with important information throughout the year. If you have any questions concerning the assignment you
may contact me at christine_d_blakely@mcpsmd.org.
I check my email often in summer.
Best Regards,
Ms Blakely
PS If you just signed up for this course and did not see me in June~ please email me so I can send information
to you about various topics, trips, films and agendas!
AP European History
Summer Assignment
Due Date: Monday August 31st
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The essay part of this assignment is designed to help me evaluate where
you are in your writing and analysis skills. You will not be graded in
terms of whether you did the parts of the assignment “right” or “wrong”
but rather in the effort you showed in completing the assignment. The
questions, however, will be graded for accuracy!
Following your reading of A World Lit Only By Fire, you are to pick one of the
following essay questions in Part A and respond to them typing, double-spaced, a
minimum 2 page response per question that analyzes what you have read. Your
responses to the questions should NOT be a simple re-stating of Manchester’s
book, but rather YOUR THOUGHTFUL analysis of the book.
You will also need to answer the questions that go along with the text of the book
in Part B. You can find the answers to these questions as you read. The following
lists the topics covered throughout the book:
Part B.
1. English records show that out of every hundred murders, how many
murderers were brought to justice?
2. How many conquered rebels did Charlemagne beheaded for refusing
baptism?
3. Who was “history’s most celebrated iconoclast” and why?
4. Why were papal proclamations called “bulls”?
5. Where did the popes live from 1305 to 1377?
6. What two things did medieval man lack awareness of?
7. When was Aristotle rediscovered by the West?
8. After Magellan, who was next to navigate the “Straits of Magellan”
successfully and survive to tell the tale?
9. Who invented the rifle and when?
10.What country were the Borgias from and how did they become popes?
11.Who declared the pope “is no longer a Christian. He is an infidel, a heretic,
and as such has ceased to be a pope.”?
12.What was Europe’s most populous country in 1500 and what was its
population?
13.What was the banking family that became prominent in the Hansa and then
in all of Europe?
14.How large was the average man?
15.Half of all people died before reaching what age?
16.What was used as a substitute for long prison sentences?
17.Who were the cleanest people in Europe?
18.At what age could girls legally marry? Boys?
19.In 1513, who became the “first painter and engineer” to Frances I?
20. What subjects made up the trivium and the quadrivium?
21.What was Erasmus’ father’s profession?
22.Who was the warrior pope?
23.Who became “the most famous man to misjudge Professor Martin Luther”?
24.What did Satan and Luther throw at each other (allegedly)? (Be polite in
answering)
25.Who did Leo X want to become the new Holy Roman Emperor in 1518
instead of Charles V? Why was this ironic?
26.What did Luther find more acceptable than divorce?
27.Who laid the egg that Luther hatched?
28.How did Luther view Copernicus?
29.How did Calvin view Copernicus?
30.How did Calvin deal with the issues of abortion and illegitimacy?
31.What is the meaning of the title of the book, “a world lit only by fire”?
32.How much of the land in England was owned by the Catholic Church when
Henry broke away?
33.Who died the “king’s good servant, but God’s first”?
34.Who was Michelangelo’s lifelong idol?
35.According to Manchester, what destroyed the Renaissance?
36.What event occurred on April 2, 1520 of Magellan’s voyage?
37.What sight caused Magellan to burst into tears in November 1520?
38.What obsession overcame Magellan while anchored in the Philippines?
39.What part of Magellan’s body was returned to Spain?
40.What was the “crowning triumph of the age, the final, decisive blow to the
past”?
Ms Blakely
In England during that year, the price of wheat rose 800 percent. Preachers compared the ceaseless rains to the great
flood in the Bible, and floods did come, overwhelming dikes in the Netherlands and
England, washing away entire towns in Germany, turning fields into lakes in France. Everywhere crops failed.
And then things got much worse. Torrential rains fell again in 1316, and for the third straight year the crops failed,
creating the most severe famine in recorded European history. The effects were most dramatic in the far North. In
Scandinavia agriculture almost disappeared, in Iceland peasants abandoned farming and turned to fishing and herding
sheep, and in Greenland the European settlers began to die out. Already malnourished, the people of Europe became
susceptible to disease and starvation. Desperate people resorted to desperate options. They ate cats, rats, insects,
reptiles, animal dung, and tree leaves….In Poland the starving were said to cut down criminals from the gallows for
food.
By the 1340s, nearly all of Europe was in an endless cycle of disease and famine. Then came the deadliest epidemics in
European history, the Black Death, which killed at least one-third of the total population….
Of all the frightening elements of these disasters, perhaps most frightening was that their causes were hidden or
completely unknowable given the technology and medical understanding of the time. In many respects, the West was
held captive by the climate, economic forces that no one completely understood, and microbes that would not be
identified for another 550 years….
Source:
1From Johannes de Trokelowe, Annates, H. T. Riley, ed., Rolls Series, No. 28, Vol. (London, 1866), pp. 92-95.
Translated by Brian Tierney.
The West: Encounters and Transformations. Brian Levack, et. al. Pearson Longman. New York: 2004, p. 325-326.
1From Johannes de Trokelowe, Annates, H. T. Riley,
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