A.P. European History Summer Assignments
This summer you must read Chapter 11 in Jackson Spielvogel’s Western Civilization and Carol Strickland’s The
Annotated Mona Lisa. The Annotated Mona Lisa can be checked out from Chesapeake Public Libraries,
purchased at local bookstores, or ordered for as little as 1.50 from www.amazon.com. I have a limited number
of books that can be checked out from me for the summer. A pdf file of Chapter 11 is located on the WBHS
shared drive in the student folder and is also located on the WBHS website. You will not be able to access the
shared drive during the summer so you will need to print the pdf before leaving school or access the pdf via the
website during the summer. If you do not have access to adobe during the summer you must print the pdf
before leaving school.
You must complete the attached assignments; they will be turned in for a grade the first day of school.
There will also be a quiz and a writing assignment on Chapter 11 the 1st week of school.
Read all of the guiding questions provided below to have a clearer purpose for the reading. Keep this
paper near as you read.
If you have any questions I am located in L6 or you can contact me at Amanda.Stiltner@cpschools.com
A. Stiltner
Part I - THE ANNOTATED MONA LISA
This assignment is designed to evaluate your skill to teach yourself. This skill is indeed imperative in
any AP/college course because – given the strict time constraints – we will not be able to cover all the material
in class and you will therefore be responsible to digest significant portions of it by yourself, using just the book.
Create a chart of the major art periods that explains the major artists, characteristics of the style, connections to
political/social/economics events, and time period.
Major Art Periods: Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism,
Realism, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism
Part II - Chapter 11 Study Guide
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Why did Europe’s population decline dramatically between 1300 and 1450?
Regarding the Black Death: What were its causes? Why did it spread so quickly in Western
Europe? Where was it most virulent?
What were the political, economic, and social results of the plague?
How did the Plaque affect each social class?
What were some of the factors that led to rural and urban revolts in the 14 th century?
Identify some of the roots of political unrest in the 14 th century.
Explain the causes and the results of the peasant revolts in England, France, and the Italian
States.
How were the growing tensions between the nobility and the emerging monarchies key to
explaining some of the reasons for the decline of feudalism in Europe by the end of the 14 th
century?
Regarding the Hundred Years’ War: What were its causes? Why did the war continue for so long a
period in the 14th century?
What advantage did each side possess in the Hundred Years’ War? What were the results of the
war in the 14th century for England and France?
Why ultimately did France win the war?
What role did Joan of Arc play in the Hundred Years’ War for England and for France?
What were the long-term political ramifications of the Hundred Years’ War on England and France?
How did England change during the reign of Edward III?
15. Identify the major “power centers” in 14th century Italy (be sure to list their strengths and
weaknesses, different government structures, and the types of societies and trade enterprises
characterized by each).
16. In what ways were the states of Italy able to gain relative stability in the 15 th century?
17. Why did Germany and Italy fail to become strong, unified nations?
18. What were the issues at stake in the controversies between Pope Boniface VIII and the King of
France?
19. What brought about the “Avignon Papacy?”
20. Identify some of the sources of church corruption in the 14th c.
21. What were the causes of the Great Schism?
22. What were the religious and political results of the Great Schism on Europe?
23. Explain how Marsiglio of Padua wanted to reform and strengthen the Christian community.
24. Summarize the claims Pope Boniface VIII made for papal authority in Unum Sanctum.
25. How did the Catholic laity respond both positively and negatively to the problems and corruption in
the church?
26. What were some of the major ideas of William Ockham?
27. Why was Ockham considered to be the founders of Western scientific thought?
28. What was the goal of the conciliarist movement?
29. What were the main ideas of John Wycliffe and Jan Hus?
30. What was mysticism and how did it affect the church?
31. Comment on the following statement: The church as an institution was threatened from both
those who believed too much and from those who believed too little.
32. What were some of the characteristics of Late Medieval art and architecture?
33. Why was Petrarch such a pivotal figure of the late Middle Ages? Why were his accomplishments?
34. Why did the late medieval writers begin to use their vernacular languages? What did they gain
and what was lost by doing so?
35. Explain how fear, prejudice, greed, and superstition combined to cause the attack upon European
Jews in 1349.
36. Describe parent-child relationships in the late Middle Ages?
37. Why was the clock such a revolutionary invention?
38. What was the Hanseatic League? How was the Hanseatic League a trade monopoly?
39. How did the adversities of the 14th century affect urban life and medical practices?
40. Identify some of the technological advances that changed European society by the early 15 th
century?
41. What were the stereotypical images of women in the late medieval Europe?
Terms/People to Know: Define using specific information – for people explain their contributions, the
meaning and importance of textbooks, think of the historical significance of the term when defining.
Yersinia pestis
Christine de Pizan
Statute of Labor
Pogrom
Longbow
Taille
Condottieri
Papal States
Clericos laicos
Papal Bull
Giotto
Scholasticism
Brothers of Common Life
Golden Bull of Charles IV
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Book of the City of Ladies
Flanders
Calais
Gabelle
War of the Roses
Geoffrey Chaucer
Meister Eckhart
lay investiture
Battle of Crecy
Jacquerie
Flagellant
Council of Constance
The Decameron
Ciompi
Nominalism
Battle of Poitiers
Great Schism
Battle of Orleans
Conciliarism
Battle of Agincourt
Defender of the Peace
French Estate General
Mysticism
Lollards
Catherine of Sienna