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Course Description

This one-year course examines societal development from the Renaissance to the present with an emphasis on emerging ideologies, expansion of empires, growth of nations, and an increase of global interdependence.  Students develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographical, political, economic, and cultural contexts.  Instructional practices incorporate integration of diversity awareness including appreciation of all cultures and their important contributions to society.  The appropriate use of technology is an integral part of this course.  This course fulfills the World History/Geography and the Arts/Humanities credits required for high school graduation.

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The European Ages of Absolutism, The Enlightenment &
The "American Revolution"

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 Review: Age of Absolutism, Enlightenment and the American Revolution
Key Humans (matching) – know who they were and where they ruled)
ex. Louis XIV - absolute monarch from Bourbon family, consolidated France with Palace of Versailles
  • Philip II
  • Louis XIV
  • Queen Elizabeth (Tutors)
  • Charles I (Stuarts)
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • Maria Theresa
  • Frederick the Great
  • Peter the Great
  • Catherine the Great Joseph II
  • Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • John Locke
  • Baron de Montesquieu
  • Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Denis Diderot
  • Adam Smith
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • King George III
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • El Greco

Key Terms (matching and/or multiple choice)
  • absolute monarchs
  • divine right
  • heredity
  • Siglo de Oro
  • inflation
  • Spanish Armada
  • Huguenots
  • bureaucrats
  • Palace of Versailles
  • alliances
  • balance of power
  • Parliament
  • Magna Carta
  • English Civil War
  • Kingless Decade & the Commonwealth
  • Glorious Revolution
  • Roundheads
  • Cavaliers
  • political consolidation
  • theocracy
  • English Bill of Rights
  • power of the purse
  • constitutions
  • limited monarchies
  • Thirty Years’ War
  • mercenaries
  • Peace of Westphalia
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Westernization
  • Enlightenment
  • natural laws
  • sociology
  • salons
  • natural rights
  • state of nature
  • social contract (not the book, the idea)
  • separation of powers
  • checks and balances
  • freedom of speech
  • community rights vs. individual rights
  • physiocrats
  • laissez faire
  • free trade vs tariffs
  • the invisible hand
  • censorship
  • Enlightened Despots
  • Tsar/Czar
  • Revolt, Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance Movement (coup d’état)
  • conservatives
  • liberals
  • republicans
  • ultra-nationalists
  • autonomy
  • abolitionism
  • suffrage
  • nationalism
  • popular sovereignty

Significant Works:
  • Essay on Man
  • Leviathan
  • Treatises of Government
  • The Spirit of Laws
  • Encyclopedia
  • Discourse on Inequality
  • The Social Contract
  • Wealth of Nations
Places to know on a mapskipoo:
  • Spain
  • Portugal
  • France
  • United Kingdom [England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland]
  • Prussia
  • Austria
  • Russia
Short Answer: How were medieval monarchs able to consolidate power and become absolute monarchs? Citing specific evidence, how did the ideals of the Enlightenment challenge Absolute monarchies?
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The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas

hwh_enlightenment.pdf
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The Age of Absolutism

hwh_absolutism.docx
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hwh_absolutism_2019.pdf
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Russia: Land of the Tsars - documentary

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