Unit # 2 Calendar- UNIT 2—FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN STATE AND RELIGIOUS WARS (Chapters 12-13)
Monday 10-6
UNIT # 1 Vocabulary Quiz
Test review
Unit # 2 introduction
Tuesday 10-7
Unit #2 overview timeline
activity
HW-(Due Wednesday) R+O (388-397) (notes and
Charts) And Charts nation and leaders)
10-13
COLUMBUS DAY
10-20
England from Tudors to
Stuarts
 Quiz
 English Civil War
R+O (p 428-438)
10-27
13.5: Central and Eastern
Europe
*Quiz??
Commpare Eatern and
Western Monarchs
p447-451 (Quest. 1-2)
Wednesday 10-8
Development of France
 Quiz ???
 Lecture/ Discussion:
The French Wars of
Religion
R+O 12.3 & 4 (p397-407)
Complete Charts Spain
and England
10-14
Self (peer) DBQ
Assessment
10-15
PSATs
Thursday 10-9
Compare FRQs: Spain &
England
 Quiz ???
 Development of
FRQ writingExpository model
DBQ- Elizabeth (Chart)
10-16
R+O ( p 416-420)
FRQ Outline
10-28
Class Debate
Was royal absolutism the
best form of government
for the 17th century?
Review: Louis XIV & Peter
10-30
TEST # 2 (in class) 60 MC
STUDY- STUDY- STUDY
DBQ- Elizabeth (DUE
Tues.) NO EXCUSSES!!!
10-17
HW- 12.5 The Thirty Years’ The Netherlands: Golden
Age to Decline
War (p 407-414)
 Quiz ???
 Historiography
debate (political vs
religious)
HW- 12.5 The Thirty Years’ War (p 407-414)
Complete Chart Rise and Fall HRE
10-21
10-22
Rise of Absolute
Timeline/ Comparison
Monarchy in France: The England and France
World of Louis XIV
 Quiz???
R+O - (p 443-447)
10-29
Student Choice
Friday
10-10
DBQ: Skills- OPVL
Grouping
10-23
13.6: Russian Enters the
European Political Arena
 Quiz ???
English Monarch Chart
(p 420-428)
10-24
Trials of the Absolutists”
R+O - (p 438-443)
10-31
Analysis of Witch trials
Spielovgel A Witchcraft
Trial in France (448)
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
Chapter 13: European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
12.1 Renewed Religious Struggle (p388-391)
13.1: The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline (p 416-419)
1. Analyze how the baroque reflected the “Age of Absolutism.”
1. Analyze factors that led to the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic and its
2. Compare the politiques successes with the failures of rules that refused
commercial success in the 17th century.
religious compromise.
13.2: Two Models of European Political Development (p419-420)
12.2 The French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) (p392-397)
2. Define and compare the reasons of success of Absolutism in France with the
3. Read this section closely it can be confusing- A timeline of events 1520-1600
rejection of Absolutism in England.
might help you. (If you are still confused check Freiler or Mr. Stip on
13.3: Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England(p 420-428)
Youtube.com)
3. Analyze the development of constitutionalism (annotated timeline would work) in
4. Analyze the extent to which the religious/ political policies of the following rulers
England during the 17th century.
were successful:
4. To what extent were the Puritans successful in achieving their goals in England
 Catherine de Medici
between 1642 and 1660?
 Henry IV
5. (Similar question ) Analyze the extent to which the religious policies of the
 Philip II (12.3)
following rulers were successful:
 Elizabeth I (12.4)
 James I & Charles I- Oliver Cromwell
12.3 Imperial Spain and Philip II (p397-402)
6. Analyze reasons for the failure of absolutism in England in the 17th century.
5. See question # 2 above. (Know Phillip’s success and failures [Netherlands’
(Walpole)
revolt])
13.4: Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV (p 428-438)
6. To what extent did the wars of religion result in the decline of the Spanish
7. What roles did Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin play in increasing the
Empire?
power of the French monarchy?
12.4 England and Spain (p 402-407)
8. Analyze the role of mercantilism in France in the 17th century. (Colbert)
7. See question # 2 from section 12.2
9. Analyze the ways in which the absolutism of Louis XIV impacted the
8. These terrible Tutors are at again, be able to explain how the monarchy of
bureaucracy, the nobility, the peasantry, economics and religious issues in
England was changed during the reign of the Tutor monarchs.
France. (Make a chart: Group &the policies and how they impacted each group)
12.5 The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) (p 407-414)
10. Make a chart of Louis wars, the success of them and outcome.
9. What defenestration and how can a huge piles of crap save lives; read and find
11. Analyze the political changes following the death of the Sun King, Louis 14th.
out. This is where history gets fun, at least until you get to deaths and
13.5: Central and Eastern Europe (p 438-443)
massacres of the war.
1. Analyze the military, political and social factors for the rise of absolutism in
10. To what degree did religion and politics play in the Thirty Years’ War?
Austria, Prussia and Russia (next section)in the 17th and 18th centuries.
11. Define and analyze the impact of the Treaty of Westphalia.
2. Compare and contrast absolutism in Eastern Europe with that of France in
Western Europe.
13.6: Russian Enters the European Political Arena (p 443-447)
12. Analyze the ways in which the absolutism of Peter impacted the bureaucracy,
the nobility, the peasantry, economics & religious issues in Russia. (Make a
chart: Group &the policies and how they impacted each group)
13.7: Religious Toleration and the Ottoman Government (p447-451)
13. What were the characteristics of the Ottoman Empire?
14. What were the causes/ impacts of its decline?
Sample FRQs are on the WEEBLY
Wars of Religion
1. Compare and contrast the economic factors responsible for the decline of Spain with the economic factors responsible for the decline of the Dutch Republic by the end of
the seventeenth century.
2. Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a turning point in European history.
3. Analyze the factors that prevented the development of a unified German state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Rise of Western absolutism, including Louis XIV and Philip II
1. Describe the challenges to royal authority in Eastern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and evaluate the effectiveness of those challenges.
2. Analyze the ways in which European monarchs used both the arts and the sciences to enhance state power in the period circa 1500–1800.
3. Louis XIV declared his goal was "one king, one law, one faith." - Analyze the methods the king used to achieve this objective and discuss the extent to which he was
successful.
4. In what ways and to what extent did absolutism affect the power and status of the European nobility in the period 1650 to 1750? Use examples from at least TWO
countries.
5. Compare and contrast the goals and major policies of Peter the Great of Russia (ruled 1682-1725) with those of Frederick the Great of Prussia (ruled 1740-1786).
6. Analyze the various effects of the expansion of the Atlantic trade on the economy of Western Europe in the period 1450–1700.
Rise of constitutional monarchy and parliamentary power in England (Tudors through Stuarts)
1. Compare and contrast the religious policies of TWO of the following:
Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici’s of France, Isabella I of Spain
Rise of the Dutch Republic
1. Compare and contrast the economic and social development of Russia with that of the Netherlands in the period 1600–1725.
2. Using the Dutch paintings above and your historical knowledge of the period, discuss how the paintings reflect the economy and culture of the Netherlands in the
seventeenth century.
3. Explain the reasons for the rise of the Netherlands as a leading commercial power in the period 1550 - 1650.
Explain how advances in learning and technology influenced fifteenth- and sixteenth- century European exploration