AP European History Summer Assignment 2012
Ms. Marenda
Lorimarenda@salemk12.org
http://apeurohistorysalemhs.wordpress.com/
Why a summer assignment for AP Euro History?
In order to cover over 600 years of European History in 8 months, we
must get off to a running start! We start with the Renaissance around
the year 1450 C.E. So that you may accurately appreciate the remarkable
events that occurred in Europe during this era, and its impact on the
world, all of you need to know what and who came before that time;
what inspired these revolutionary changes in thought and action. The
summer assignment will help you acquire some of this needed
information.
Blog Postings (80 points)
Throughout the summer, you will be required to respond to a minimum of
four postings to readings, videos, current events, and/or etc. that relate
to European History on the AP Euro History blog (see web address
above). You may have to read an article from the New York Times. You
may have to watch a YouTube video. You will be responsible for posting
your thoughts and ideas based on what you read or saw. Each posting will
be worth 20 points (20x4=80 points). Get into the habit of checking the
blog every single day. You will have to post at least a two-paragraph
comment per entry.
Book Assignment (Part A & B)
In preparation for your “journey” through A.P. European History, you will
be required to read A World Lit Only By Fire-The Medieval Mind and the
Renaissance- Portrait of an Age (ISBN 0316545562) by William Manchester
(price is $15.99). Try Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite online
bookstore.
THERE WILL BE A QUIZ ON THE BOOK THE FIRST DAY OF
SCHOOL!!!!!!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The essay part of this assignment is designed to help me evaluate where
you are in your writing and analysis skills.
Following your reading of A World Lit Only By Fire, you are to pick one of
the following essay questions in Part A and respond to them typing,
double-spaced, a minimum 2 page response per question that analyzes
what you have read. Your responses to the questions should NOT be a
simple re-stating of Manchester’s book, but rather YOUR
THOUGHTFUL analysis of the book.
Part A (100 points). Two paged typed analytical essay; choose ONE
#1 Examine and analyze Manchester’s use of evidence to support his
claims. He asserts that the book was written using secondary sources;
does this reduce the impact of the book and/or change your opinion on
it? What primary sources (that are available) should he have used, in your
opinion?
#2 Examine and analyze Manchester’s point of view on “medieval man”.
What is missing in the lives of medieval people? What is Manchester’s
assessment of this? Why does the Renaissance spring from medieval
times, according to Manchester? Is this a viable assessment of the times,
in your opinion? Why or why not?
#3 Manchester places great deal of emphasis on the importance of
Ferdinand Magellan. Does Magellan deserve all the credit Manchester
gives him or would there be a better person to put in his place in the
context of what A World Lit Only By Fire is trying to explain to us? Or
does another historical figure deserve the attention that Magellan
receives? Who is he/she and why? Be sure to use specific examples from
the book to support your claims and explain in detail.
Part B (80 points).
The following lists the topics covered throughout the book:
Pages
3-28
30-50
50-71
71-94
95-117
Topical Content from Manchester
The “Dark Ages”
Beware, dragons lurk here
Towns, hamlets, and noble Manor houses
Private life
Piercing the darkness with the Bright shaft of
learning
117-136
136-156
Church
156-178
178-202
202-219
223-240
240-261
261-276
276-296
Erasmus, Pico, and doctrinal
Tetzel, Luther, and the “Mighty Fortress”, the
“Death to priests!” and Exsurge Domine
Christians slaughtering Christians
Henry VIII, “Defender of the Faith”
Ferdinand Magellan
Voyages of discovery
Crossing the Pacific
The hero stands alone
Answer the questions as you read A World Lit Only By Fire. Type
questions and answers.
1. English records show that out of every hundred murders, how many
murderers were brought to justice?
2. How many conquered rebels did Charlemagne beheaded for refusing
baptism?
3. Who was “history’s most celebrated iconoclast” and why?
4. Why were papal proclamations called “bulls”?
5. Where did the popes live from 1305 to 1377?
6. What two things did medieval man lack awareness of?
7. When was Aristotle rediscovered by the West?
8. After Magellan, who was next to navigate the “Straits of Magellan”
successfully and survive to tell the tale?
9. Who invented the rifle and when?
10. What country were the Borgias from and how did they become popes?
11. Who declared the pope “is no longer a Christian. He is an infidel, a
heretic, and as such has ceased to be a pope.”?
12. What was Europe’s most populous country in 1500 and what was its
population?
13. What was the banking family that became prominent in the Hansa and
then in all of Europe?
14. How large was the average man?
15. Half of all people died before reaching what age?
16. What was used as a substitute for long prison sentences?
17. Who were the cleanest people in Europe?
18. At what age could girls legally marry? Boys?
19. In 1513, who became the “first painter and engineer” to Frances I?
20. What subjects made up the trivium and the quadrivium?
21. What was Erasmus’ father’s profession?
22. Who was the warrior pope?
23. Who became “the most famous man to misjudge Professor Martin
Luther”?
24. What did Satan and Luther throw at each other (allegedly)? (Be polite
in answering)
25. Who did Leo X want to become the new Holy Roman Emperor in 1518
instead of Charles V? Why was this ironic?
26. What did Luther find more acceptable than divorce?
27. Who laid the egg that Luther hatched?
28. How did Luther view Copernicus?
29. How did Calvin view Copernicus?
30. How did Calvin deal with the issues of abortion and illegitimacy?
31. What is the meaning of the title of the book, “a world lit only by fire”?
32. How much of the land in England was owned by the Catholic Church
when Henry broke away?
33. Who died the “king’s good servant, but God’s first”?
34. Who was Michelangelo’s lifelong idol?
35. According to Manchester, what destroyed the Renaissance?
36. What event occurred on April 2, 1520 of Magellan’s voyage?
37. What sight caused Magellan to burst into tears in November 1520?
38. What obsession overcame Magellan while anchored in the Philippines?
39. What part of Magellan’s body was returned to Spain?
40. What was the “crowning triumph of the age, the final, decisive blow
to the past”?
Map of Europe (50 points)
You will label the map of Europe provided. The map will be collected on
the first day of school. The map must be colored and labeled properly.
You will have a quiz on the map the first week of school.
The Great Quote Activity (150 points)
You will create 30 note cards of famous quotes from European History.
Using 4 x 6 note cards, you will copy each quote, who stated the quote,
and explain what the context/meaning of the quote (see attached list).
Use the Internet to help explain the context of the quote. We will be
addressing each of these quotes throughout the school year.
For example:
“Bread, Peace, Land.” ~ Lenin
What is the context/meaning of the quote?
This was a slogan used by Lenin during the 1917
October Revolution in Russia. Bread is mentioned
because people were starving, peace because Russia
had been fighting in WW I for too long, and land
because it means power.
Points:
Blog Posts
80 points
Manchester book essay
100 points
Manchester book questions 80 points
Map of Europe
50 points
Quote Activity
150 points
Total Points for Summer Assignments =
460 points
Unless noted all work will be turned in the first day of school!!!!
History Quotes
“The Great decisions of the day will not be decided by speeches or
majority decisions . . . but by iron and blood.”
~Otto von Bismarck
“The Revolution is over! I am the Revolution!”
~Napoleon Bonaparte
“From Settin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has
descended across the continent.”
~Winston Churchill
“Victory has been bought at a price so dear as to be indistinguishable
from defeat.”
~Winston Churchill
“I think, therefore I am.”
~Rene Descartes
“I am the first servant of the state.”
~Frederick II of Prussia
“I will not accept the crown from the gutter.”
~Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia
“And yet, it still moves!”
~Galileo Galilei
“Paris is worth a mass.”
~Henry IV of France
“No bishops, no king!”
~James I of England
“Bread, Peace, Land!”
~Lenin
“Not bad, considering I was sitting between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.”
~David Lloyd George
“L’etat c’est moi.”
~Louis XVI of France
“Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.”
~Martin Luther
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants.”
~Isaac Newton
“The proletarians have nothing to lose by their chains. They have a world
to win. Workers of all lands, unite!”
~Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
“Men are to be changed by, not to change, religion.”
~Pope Paul III
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
~Haile Selassie
“Czar Alexander got to Paris!”
~Joseph Stalin
“Sire, we must do from above what the French have done from below.”
~Baron von Stein
“Crush the infamous thing!”
~Voltaire
“Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.”
~Wilhelm II of Germany
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
~Woodrow Wilson
“Kings are justly called gods for that they exercise a manner or
resemblance of Divine power upon Earth.”
~James 1 of England
“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”
~Elizabeth I
“Equality requires Institutions so well adapted, as to prevent the Rich
from oppressing those who are not so wealthy as themselves, and
converting all the Charges and Employments entrusted to them as
Magistrates only, to their own private Emolument.”
~Catherine the Great
“Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.”
~Margaret Thatcher
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
~Anne Frank
“Everybody grows but me.”
~Queen Victoria