AP European History Summer Assignment
The summer assignment consists of two parts. Both assignments will be due on the half-day that we return
to schools. They will be the first two grades of the nine weeks. There will be a test over the summer
assignment on the first full day classes are in session. Please contact me if you have any questions about the
assignment.
EMAIL: Valerie.Gregory@cmcss.net
Part 1: Book Assignment: A History of Western Society, John McKay
 Read and Outline - Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages. It is extremely important that
you read the whole chapter, as the test will be over this information. Ask yourself questions after you
have read a section, because it will help you retain the information. I will accept the outline in one of
two formats either a traditional outline with Roman numerals or headings with bullet points & subpoints. This outline should be extremely detailed. An outline that is only 1-2 pages in length is too
short.
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Terms Assignment – You must define the attached list of terms as part of the summer assignment.
They are to be stapled to your outline. The terms will be due on the day of the test over the summer
assignment. Be as through as possible when defining the terms. Consider the questions of who, what,
where, when, and why as you define them. Number the terms.
People and Terms
Great Famine
Black Death
Buba
Flagellants
Salic Law
Hundred Years War
Battle of Crecy
Battle of Agincourt
Representative Assemblies
Nationalism
Babylonian Captivity
Schism
Great Schism
Conciliarism
Lollards
Council of Pisa
Council of Constance
Merchet
Banns
Guilds
Peasant revolts
Jacquerie
Racism
Dalimil Chronicle
Statute of Kilkenny
Vernacular
Edward III
Joan of Arc
Philip the Fair
Pope Gregory XI
Pope Urban VI
John Wyclif
Marsiglio of Padua
Jan Hus
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
François Villon
Christine de Pisan
Part 2: Map Assignment
 Create a map of Europe to include the following cities, countries, rivers, mountain ranges, peninsulas,
and bodies of water. You will need to label each of them neatly and correctly. The assignment will be
due the first half-day of school. You will need the materials listed below to complete this assignment.
Please follow the directions and make sure that your map is neat, accurate and complete.
 Materials Needed and How to Use Them:
o White poster board or large sheet of heavy stock paper
o Colored pencils (NO MARKERS) – you will need to color each country a different color. Be
sure not to have two countries of the same color next to each other.
 Blue = Bodies of Water
 Brown/tan = Mountain Ranges
o One ultra-fine point black felt tip pen for labeling
o One fine point black felt tip pen for outlining, drawing borders….
o One fine point blue felt tip pen for outlining and labeling bodies of water
o Make a key identifying cities and physical features.
Cities
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Athens
Barcelona
Belfast
Berlin
Brussels
Bucharest
Budapest
Copenhagen
Dresden
Dublin
Florence
Frankfurt
Gdansk
Geneva
Glasgow
Gibraltar
Helsinki
Istanbul (Constantinople)
Kiev
Krakow
Lisbon
Liverpool
London
Madrid
Manchester
Milan
Minsk
Moscow
Munich
Naples
Nuremberg
Oslo
Paris
Prague
Rome
St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
Salzburg
Sarajevo
Stockholm
Venice
Vienna
Volgograd (Stalingrad)
Warsaw
Zurich
Map Terms
Countries
Albania
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyrus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy (and Sicily)
Latvia
Lithuania
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
Vatican City
Bodies of Water
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Dardanelles
English Channel
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
Strait of Gibraltar
Rivers
Danube
Elbe
Po
Rhine
Rhone
Seine
Thames
Volga
Peninsulas
Balkan
Crimean
Iberian
Jutland
Scandinavian
Mountain Ranges
Alps
Caucasus
Pyrenees
Ural
Optional Assignment – The following are a list of terms that it would be useful to know as we cover the
Renaissance. You will need to use outside sources to find most of these terms. You can choose to do
some of the terms or all of them. The more terms that you complete, the more bonus points you earn (up
to 10 points). Be as through as possible when defining the terms or you will not be rewarded with the
bonus points.
Carruca
Three-field system
Chivalry
Knighthood
Truce (Peace) of God
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Annulment
Venice
Flanders
Champagne
Borough/burgh
Communes
Charters of liberty
Craft guilds
Putting out-system
Universities (medieval)
Irneriu
Liberal arts
Atrium baccalaureus
Town v. gown
Aristotle
Averroes
Scholasticism
Realists v. Nominalists
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Troubadours
Vernacular
Chanson de geste
Song of Roland
Romanesque
Barrel vault
Gothic
Pointed arch
Flying buttress
Abbot Suger
Saint-Denis
Norman Conquest
Common law
Parliament
Frederick II
Teutonic knights
Pope Gregory VII
Concordat of Worms
Pope Innocent III
St. Francis of Assisi
Beguines
Relics
Cathars (Albigensians)
Seljuk Turks
Excommunication
Pope Urban at Clermont
Fourth Crusade
Doomsday Book
Thomas Beckett
Capetian Dynasty
Estates-General
Alexander Nevsky
Lay investiture
Papal monarchy
Poor Clares
Cistercians
Scaraments
Holy Office/Inquisition
Battle of Manzikert
Crusader States
Oath of Salisbury
Magna Carta
Phillip II Augustus
Frederick Barbarossa
The Mongols
Curia
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“Little Ice Age”
Pogroms
Wat Tyler & John Ball
Gunpowder
Duke of Orleans
The Visconti & d’Este
Council of Ten
Catherine of Sienna
Purgatory
Modern Devotion
Nominalism
Petrarch’s sonnets
Guiotto
Decameron
Statue od Laborers
The Ciompi
Henry V
The gabelle & the taille
Golden Bull of Charles IV
Unam Sanctum
Marsiglio of Padua
Brothers of the Common Life
The four humors
Canterbury Tales
Yersina pestis
The Jacquerie
Longbow
Grandi & popolo grasso
Anti-christ
Dominicans
Pilgrimages
Meister Eckhart
William of Occam
Abelard & Heloise
Sample Outlines
Sample 1:
I.
II.
Prelude to Disaster
A. Great Famine 1315-1322 – series of poor harvests led to scarcity and starvation
i. Reduced caloric intake…
ii. Typhoid Fever …
B. Languedoc
i.
ii.
Black Death
Sample 2:
Prelude to Disaster
 Great Famine ….
o ….
o …
 Languedoc
Black Death