Name:______________________________________________________
A.P. European History Web-Quest
Cover Sheet
Print this sheet off and use it as a checklist to make sure each of the assignments are done. This sheet must be turned in
on the 1st day of class along with the completed assignments in the listed order below. You might want to consider
breaking these up over the summer and doing one a week to not overload yourself at the end of the summer in a mad
rush to complete it all. EVERY ASSIGNMENT MUST BE HAND WRITTEN
_____ Label European Rivers and Bodies of Water Map
_____ Label European Mountains and Physical Features Map
_____ Greece
_____ Roman Empire
_____ Middle Ages (this is a more lengthy and detailed section as it leads into the start of the class in 1450)
_____ European History Timeline “From Sparta to Magna Carta”
_____ COLOR & Label European Major Cities and Countries of the 1500’s Map
WARNING:
This assignment is designed to give the students not only introductory knowledge, but also introduce skills that
you will use throughout the year. Thus copying other students work will not only leave you not knowing as
much, but lacking in the developing of skills that others will have. It will also give you a very large 0 on you
first assignment in the class. Plagiarism on any part of the assignment will result in a 0 on the whole assignment.
Turning it in even 10 minutes late is -25%, and over 24 hours late - 50%.
Email me at jfollis@hse.k12.in.us if there are broken links or any other problems, you do not want to wait until
the end of the summer in case there are problems.
EUROPEAN RIVERS AND BODIES OF WATER - just label, don’t color, the water bodies on the map below
BODIES OF WATER
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Baltic Sea
Bay of Biscay
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
English Channel
Ionian Sea
Irish Sea
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
RIVERS
Danube
Dnieper
Don
Elbe
Loire
Po
Rhine
Seine
Shannon
Tagus
Thames
Ural
Vistula
Volga
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL FEATURES - just label, don’t color, the physical features on the map below
Alps
Apennines
Cantabrian Mountains
Carpathian Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
Kjolen Mountains
Pennines
Pyrenees
Scandinavian Mountains
Jutland Peninsula
Meseta
Lapland
Balkan Peninsula
East European Plain
Iberian Peninsula
Silesia
Crimean Peninsula
Anatolia
Northern European Plain
Northern European Lowlands
Pannonian plain
Plain of France
Scandinavian Peninsula
Alsace/Lorraine
AP European History: Web-Quest: Greek History
DIRECTIONS: On a separate sheet of paper answer the following question with handwritten brief answers in complete sentences.
Politics
1. Summarize the various models of government developed in Athens, Sparta, and on other city state
2. Give a strength and weakness of each
3. Which do you think is best and why
Cultural
4. Briefly describe Spartan society (i.e. groups, classes, rights)
Military
5. Discuss 3 major Greek military advancements, weapons, or tactics
6. Describe the causes of the Persian War
7. What battle is said to be the most important in Greek History that occurred during that war, and why is it important?
8. What union involving several city states formed after the Persian Wars and why?
9. Who was Athens’s greatest king and what were 3 of his accomplishments.
10. Name and Summarize the Greek civil war that grew out of tension over Athens’s growing power and misuse of Delian
League, & who won it?
Intellectual
11. Discuss the 3 major Greek philosophers and 3 of each of their key ideas, concepts, or contributions.
12. Summarize the Greek contributions to literature, theater, and the sciences. (3 people with accomplishments per category)
13. What is the lasting legacy of the Greeks? (give at least 5 examples)
14. Read the Allegory of the Cave and answer the following questions. Summarize the Allegory. What is the Allegory really
about? Who/What do the prisoners, the shadow wall, and the sun represent?
Technological
Google image search the words "Acropolis" & "Parthenon". After looking at various images of the two answer the question
15. What does the layout, buildings, and architectural style tell you about the Greek culture?
16. Watch this Crash Course videos on the Greeks at HERE and list the 5 most interesting things you learned in the video.
AP European History: Web-Quest: The Roman Empire
DIRECTIONS: On a separate sheet of paper answer the following question with handwritten brief answers in complete sentences.
Politics
1. Summarize the Political evolution of Rome from Republic to Empire. Discuss the evolution, how both worked, and give a
pro and con for each.
2. Discuss the great innovation that Tiberius Gracchus made in politics and discuss how his new way of being a politician is
still around today.
3. Summarize the Roman idea of a "Dictator" in at least 5 sentences.
4. Summarize the historical importance of Julius Caesar in at least 5 sentences.
5. Summarize the historical importance of Augustus Caesar in at least 5 sentences.
6. Summarize the historical importance of Constantine in at least 5 sentences.
Intellectual
7. Discuss and summarize the accomplishments and works of Virgil, Cicero, and Horace?
8. Summarize the historical importance of Galen in at least 5 sentences
Technological
9. List and discuss 3 great architectural feats were accomplished by the Romans.
10. List and discuss 5 great building built by room
11. Describe the legacy and impact of Roman architecture in today's society.
Cultural
12. Discuss the polytheistic structure of Roman religion
13. Discuss the early structure of the Christian Church
14. Discuss how the Roman Empire became Christian.
Read The “THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE” and answer the following questions.
15. After reading that section on "Theories about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire" make a list of the various reasons
speculated on by historians for the reasons for the decline of Rome. Then group them into like categories.
16. Do you see any of the issues you listed present in America today? (Discuss why or why not)
17. Watch this Crash Course videos on the Romans HERE and list the 5 most interesting things you learned in the video.
18. Watch this Crash Course videos on the Fall of the Romans HERE and list the 5 most interesting things you learned in the
video.
AP European History: Web-Quest: The Middle Ages
DIRECTIONS: On a separate sheet of paper answer the following question with handwritten brief answers in complete sentences.
Agricultural
1. Discuss and summarize medieval agriculture and any farming advancements.
Political
2. Discuss at least 4 important aspects of the Norman Conquest and why it is a turning point in European history.
3. Summarize the historical importance of Charlemagne in at least 5 sentences.
4. Summarize the structure and workings of Feudalism and discuss it’s pros and cons.
5. Summarize the historical importance of Henry II of England in at least 5 sentences.
6. Summarize the historical importance of John I of England in at least 5 sentences.
7. Discuss the structure and impact of the Magna Carta
8. Summarize the historical importance of Edward I of England in at least 5 sentences.
Cultural
9. List and describe 4 unique elements of the set-up and spread of Christianity in that era in the early middle ages.
10. Summarize the complexities, problems, and challenges to the Catholic Church in the 1300's
11. According to Wikipedia what is the Black Death? Summarize the causes, events, conclusion/impact of the Black Death
Military
12. According to Wikipedia what is the Crusades? Summarize the causes, events, conclusion/impact of the crusades
13. Discuss the causes, events, conclusion/impact of the Hundred Years War.
Intellectual
14. Summarize the historical importance of Geoffrey Chaucer in at least 5 sentences.
15. Summarize the historical importance of Dante Alighieri in at least 5 sentences.
16. Summarize the historical importance of Boccaccio in at least 5 sentences.
17. Discuss and summarize medieval art and architecture
18. Do a Google search on "effects on Europe of the little ice age" and list the 10 greatest and diverse impacts it had on European society.
19. What is the name for the ancient culture that occupied the Norwegian/Scandinavian areas? Discuss 5 positive and 5 negative impacts of this
group on the cultures they attacked and Europe in general.
20. What was the Byzantine Empire
21. List 4 of Justinian's major accomplishments
22. Discuss the type of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire and what made it different from that of the west.
23. In what way were the Byzantines instrumental in the Italian Renaissance of the 1400's which was a rebirth of classical Greek and Roman
culture?
24. Watch this Crash Course videos on the Crusades HERE and list the 5 most interesting things you learned in the video.
25. Watch this Crash Course videos on the Dark Ages at HERE and list the 5 most interesting things you learned in the video.
Web-Quest: Timeline
For this activity you will create a timeline after first matching the list of dates with their corresponding events. The format for creating the timeline is precise so
please read instructions carefully. You will need to submit this sheet along with your timeline and entire summer assignment packet.
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Tape 2 pieces of 8/5 x 11 paper together along the short edge to create long piece of paper that is 11” x 17”
It should be written very neatly, organized clearly & free of spelling errors.
Insert year increments and evenly space your increments across the page
Your timeline should have a scale (for example: that means if the event happened in 1175 - it should be 3/4 of the way between 1100 & 1200 )
Write both the event’s name and date. Avoid overlapping names, arrows, & lines
It will be graded on the above criteria, as well as on accuracy of dates, organization, & legibility
499 – 448 bce = Persian Wars 470-399 bce = Socrates
431 – 404 bce = Peloponnesian Wars
336 bce = Alexander the Great begins his reign
264 – 146 bce = Punic Wars
44 bce = Death of Julius Caesar
27 bce – 180 ad = Pax Romana
116 =Roman Empire reaches greatest extent
313 = Edict of Milan
330= Constantine converts to Christianity
445 = Attila the Hun attacks Western Europe
476 = Rome falls to Germanic invaders
527 – 565 = Justinian’s reign
732 = Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Tours (Poitier)
800 = Charlemagne’s coronation
800 – 1071= Height of Viking raids
962 = Otto the Great is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1054 = The Great Schism (East-West)
1066 = Norman Invasion/Battle of Hastings
1095 = Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades
1212 = Children’s Crusade
1215 = King John I seals Magna Carta
1237 = Mongol invasion of Russia
1271 = Marco Polo travels to China
1309 - 1378 = The Babylonian Captivity (aka Avignon Papacy)
1347 = Bubonic plague reaches Europe
1429 = Joan of Arc leads French troops
1453 = Fall of Constantinople
1455 = Gutenberg Bible printed
1492 = Reconquista accomplished
EUROPE MAJOR CITIES & COUNTRIES in 1500 a.d. - Label & COLOR the various countries, mark each city w/ a dot
COUNTRIES
CITIES
Amsterdam
Athens
Berlin
Constantinople
Florence
Kiev
London
Madrid
Moscow
Munich
Naples
Paris
Prague
Rome
Vatican City
Venice
Vienna
Warsaw
Denmark
England
France
Holy Roman Empire
Hungary
Ireland
Lithuania
Muscovy
Naples
Norway
Ottoman Empire
Papal States
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Teutonic Order
Venetian Republic
Scotland
Spain