AP Euro Homework For The 2023-2024 School Year

We are in Week #12 and studying Chapter 17, the Enlightenment.  The Chapter 17 Test will be on Thursday, 11/9.  We will have our Enlightenment Salon next week, on Thursday, 11/16.  Please plan ahead on what you will wear so you are prepared.

Hot Tips Chapter 17

Know the person who helped bridge the intellectual gap between the 17th and 18th centuries

Know what makes Enlightenment thinkers secularists

Know the mantra Kant lived by

Know the role Fontenelle played in welcoming in the Enlightenment by making it cool to be skeptical of the church and talk heliocentric theory

Know what Bayle’s dictionary helped accomplish

Know which socio-economic groups were most involved in intellectual development in France

Know which city became the center of the Enlightenment

Know what Voltaire says in his Letters to the English

Know how the application of universal laws to society leads to the social sciences

Know the term Laissez-faire

Know the philosophy of Condorcet

Know d’Holbach’s System of Nature

Know Rousseau in general and also his feelings about private property

Know both Wollstonecraft and Astell and which one gave a stronger testament to women’s rights

Know the important works, as told by Spielvogel, of Watteau and Nuemann

Know what Bach’s work focused on

Know how Haydn and Mozart caused a shift in music

Know the works as illustrated by Mozart

Know how the development of the novel impacted the intellectual world

Know what significant change occurs in how history is written during the Enlightenment

Know Gibbon’s work on the Fall of Rome

Know how Great Britain leads in literary development

Know what characterized high culture in the 18th century

Know who the secondary schools were initially meant to serve

Know how education changed toward the end of the 18th century

Know how the legal system and forms of punishment changed toward the end of the 18th century

Know what the Carnival of the Mediterranean refers to

Know what happens to literacy rates in the 18th century

Know what the role of Catholic and Protestant churches were during the 18th century

Know who John Wesley was

Know what Pietism was