AP European History HW for Ch. 17 and 18
Due Date Reading
Tues 12/8 Reading 550-
HW #23 562
Thurs
12/10
HW #24
563-575
Homework
Questions:
127. Explain in a paragraph how Newton and Locke’s ideas led to the enlightenment. (Group 1)
128. Explain in a paragraph what a print culture was and where it was started. (Group 2)
129. Explain in a paragraph who the philosophes were, what they believed and who the major philosophes were. (Group 3)
130. Read Kant’s Definition of Enlightenment on Page 556.
Explain in a paragraph what Kant believes the enlightenment is, the motto of the enlightenment, and what he believes the enlightened must do. (Group 4)
131. Explain in a paragraph how Voltaire offended different powerful people and explain his major ideas. (Group 5)
132 . Explain in a paragraph some of the criticisms of Christianity by Enlightenment thinkers. (Group 6)
133.
Explain in a three sentences how Enlightenment thinkers viewed Judaism. (Group 7)
134.
Explain in a paragraph the views of the Jewish
Enlightenment thinkers Baruch Spinoza and Moses Mendelsohn and how they differed from each other. (Group 8)
Terms:
126.The Columbian Exchange (Group 9)
127.Tabula Rasa (Group 9)
128.Philosophes
129.Public Opinion
130.Immanuel Kant
131.Voltaire
132 . Explain in a paragraph some of the criticisms of Christianity by Enlightenment thinkers. (Group 1)
133.
Explain in a three sentences how Enlightenment thinkers viewed Judaism. (Group 2)
134.
Explain in a paragraph the views of the Jewish
Enlightenment thinkers Baruch Spinoza and Moses Mendelsohn and how they differed from each other. (Group 3)
135. Explain in a paragraph the negative views that most people held of Islam and why they held those views. (Group 4)
136. Explain in three sentences each the following ideas.
A. The Encyclopedia B. The Reform of Criminal Law

Mon
12/14
HW #25
576-589 (To where it says
Frederick the
Great of
Prussia)
C. Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (Group 5)
137. Explain in four sentences the major ideas of the following.
A. Montesquieu ‘s Spirit of the Laws
B. Jean Jacques Rousseau (Group 6)
138. Explain the three major ideas that allowed Enlightenment thinkers to criticize European empires. (Group 7)
139. Explain in a paragraph the role of women of the
Enlightenment (Group 8)
Terms:
143. Baruch Spinoza
144. Moses Mendelsohn
145. The Encyclopedia
146. Adam Smith
147. Physiocrats
148. Baron de Montesquieu
149. Jean Jacques Rousseau
150. Denis Diderot
140. Explain in a paragraph each the two following artistic styles including different artists.
A. Rococo Art B. Neoclassical Art
141. Explain in three sentences the characteristics of Enlightened
Absolutism .
142. Explain each of the following reforms of Frederick the Great in three sentences each.
A. Promotion through merit
B. Religious toleration
C. Administrative and Economic Reforms
143. Explain each of the following reforms of Joseph II of Austria in three sentences each
A. Centralization of Authority
B. Ecclesiastical Policies
C. Economic and Agrarian Policies
144. Explain each of the following reforms of Catherine the Great of Russia.
A. Limited Administrative Reform
B. Economic Growth
C. Territorial Expansion
Terms:
151. Mary Wollstonecraft
152. Rococo Art
153. Neoclassicalism
154. Enlightened Absolutism
155. Frederick the Great
156. Joseph II
157. Catherine the Great

Tues
12/15
HW #29
592-608
Thurs
12/17
HW #30
608-624
145. Explain in a paragraph why the king raises taxes, what is in
Necker’s report, and why he calls the Estates General.
146. Explain in three sentences each the following events in
French Revolution.
A. The Estates General becomes the National Assembly
B. The Debate over organization and voting
C. The creation of the National Assembly
D. The Tennis Court Oath
E. The Fall of the Bastille
F. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
G. The Parisian Women’s March on Versailles
147. Explain the following changes after the Revolution in two sentences each.
A. Political Reorganization
B. Active and Passive Citizens
C. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman
C. Departments Replacing Provinces
D. Workers’ Organizations Forbidden
E. Confiscation of Church Lands
Terms:
159. Jacques Necker
160. The Calling of the Estates General
161. The Third Estate
162. The Tennis Court Oath
163. The Fall of the Bastille
164. The Declaration of the Rights of Man
165. Olympe de Gouges
148. Explain the Counterrevolutionary activities in four sentences including the Flight to Varennes and the Declaraton of Pillnitz.
149. Explain the roles of the Jacobins and the sans-culottes in a paragraph and explain the importance of each group.
150. Explain each of the following in two sentences each
A. The Reign of Terror B. The Levee en Masse
C. The Committee on Public Safety
D. The Republic of Virtue
E. Repression of the society of Revolutionary Republican Women
F. De-Christianization
G. Revolutionary Tribunals
H. The End of the Terror
151. Explain in three sentences the Thermidorian reaction.
Terms:
166. Jacobins
167. Sans-Culottes
168. The September Massacres
169. Edmund Burke

170. 2 nd
and 3 rd
Partition of Poland
171. The Reign of Terror
172. Robespierre
173. Thermidorian Reaction