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Unit 1: The Italian Renaissance

Palmer Colton 11th Edition (49-70)

The Italian City-State were the Birthplace of the Renaissance

Documents:

• Peter Paul Vergerius, Letter

• Leonardo Bruni, Letter

• Castiglione, The Courtier

Secondary sources:

• The Myth of the Renaissance, Peter Burke

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burchardt

Unit 2: The Northern Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Catholic Counter Reformation

Palmer Colton 11th Edition (70-98)

Humanism spread from the Italian States north into the Holy Roman Empire sparking change in art, religion, and government.

Documents:

• Luther, 95 Theses, 1517

• Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

• Luther, the "Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants"

• John Calvin, The Institutes: Predestination and Resisting Secular Rulers

• Ignatius Loyola, "Rules for Thinking with the Church"

• A Reformation Debate: Luther v Zwingli

• The German Peasants' Revolt of 1525

• Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection

Secondary Source: A Political Interpretation of the Reformation, G.R. Elton

Unit 3: Rise and Fall of Spain, French Wars of Religion, Commercial Revolution

Palmer Colton 11th Edition 99-138 and 267-281

During the late 1400s and 1500s power began to shift away from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (Spain and France became important powers). The Reformation impacted Spain and France, though in different ways.

Documents:

• The Edict of Nantes, 1598

• Three Cases Tried by the Spanish Inquisition, 1575-1606

Secondary Source: The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World, M.L. Bush

Unit 4: Rise of Tudor England and 30 years War

Palmer Colton 11th Edition

30 Years War, pages 138-146

Tudor England, pages 74, 88-93, 128-131

During the late 1400s and 1500s power began to shift away from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (England became an important power). The Reformation impacted the Holy Roman Empire and Austria tried to revive its power.

Documents:

• Queen Elizabeth, Speech to the troops before the battle with the Armada, 1588 (Q)

• Queen Elizabeth, "The Golden Speech," 1601 (Q)

Unit 5: 17^th Century (Stuart England, Civil War, and the Dutch Republics)

Palmer Colton 11th Edition, pages 147-173

The 1600s saw a continuation in the spreading of conflict between Catholics and Protestants. The commercial revolution helped both England and the Netherlands become world powers.

Documents:

• English Puritans, 1629

• Test Act, 1672

• John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1690 (Q)

• The Causes of the English Civil War

Secondary Sources: A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War, Hajo Holborn and A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years´ War, Carl J. Friedrich

Unit 6: 17^th Century (Absolutism in France and Eastern Europe)

Palmer Colton 11th Edition, 173-231 and 294-308

While the commercial revolution made dominant powers of the Protestant states, Catholic France (Mercantilism) and Eastern Europe remain tied to older ways, dominated by agriculture.

Documents:

• from the Memoirs of the Duke of St. Simon

• (Revocation) of the Edict of Fountainbleau, 1685

• Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

• "Edict of Potsdam" Issued by Frederick the Great Elector, 1685

• Polish Victory over the Turks, 1683.

• A Secret Letter: Monarchial Authority in Prussia, Frederick William, The Great Elector

• The Great Elector Welcomes Protestant Refugees From France, Frederick William, The Great Elector

Secondary Source: Absolutism: Myth and Reality, G. Durand

Unit 7: The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment, 233-266 and 309-339

Palmer Colton 11th Edition

The 1600s and 1700s saw increased challenges to traditional power in the fields of science, government, and economics.

Documents:

• Voltaire, Poem on the Lisbon Disaster

• Rousseau, Letter to Voltaire

• Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

• Voltaire, Candide

• Copernicus, Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

• Kant, "What is the Enlightenment?"

Unit 8: The French Revolution (1789) and the Rise and Fall of Napoleon

Palmer Colton 11th Edition, 363-447

The enlightenment came into its own during the the French Revolution.

Documents:

• Robespierre, The Terror Justified

• Cahiers de Doleances

• Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?

• de Gouges, Dec. of the Rights of Women

• The Great Fear

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