Unit #3 - Absolutism and Constitutionalism - Yin and Yang of Modern Government
10/21 - To Do:
Senior Pages!
Clausewitz
10/22 - Exam!
10/24 - pgs. 485-492
Unit #3 Class Notes
Pensees intro by Eliot
The Pensees
10/25 - pgs. 493-497 (Hohenzollern Family - Prussia compared with the rest of Central/Eastern Europe)
Barzun’s “Louis XIV”
10/28 - pgs. 497-502 (World of Cromwell)
Locke and Hobbes
Complete English Civil War lecture
10/30 - pgs. 502-512
Schama’s “Cromwell”
10/31 - Service/WKD
11/1 - pgs. 512-516
11/4 - Barzun’s Puritanism & Response Paper
11/5 - pgs. 519-529
Milton’s “Aeropagitica” Journal
Work on Slavery in British History Worksheet
11/7 - pgs. 529-536
Rococo Journal
Schama’s “Britain Incorporated” video
Senior Pages
11/8 - pgs. 537-544
"Men of the Pen"
Peter the Great’s Decrees [Substantial vs. Superficial]
11/11 - pgs 544-551
Descartes (journal)
Bayle’s HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY [Take time to scroll down and look at “The Bayle Enigma”]
11/14 - Absolutism & Constitutionalism Exam
You'll see:
Maps #21-32
Summary of English Democracy "Fill Ins"
Identifications:
Definitions:
Short Answer:
Senior Pages!
Clausewitz
10/22 - Exam!
10/24 - pgs. 485-492
Unit #3 Class Notes
Pensees intro by Eliot
The Pensees
10/25 - pgs. 493-497 (Hohenzollern Family - Prussia compared with the rest of Central/Eastern Europe)
Barzun’s “Louis XIV”
10/28 - pgs. 497-502 (World of Cromwell)
Locke and Hobbes
Complete English Civil War lecture
10/30 - pgs. 502-512
Schama’s “Cromwell”
10/31 - Service/WKD
11/1 - pgs. 512-516
11/4 - Barzun’s Puritanism & Response Paper
11/5 - pgs. 519-529
Milton’s “Aeropagitica” Journal
Work on Slavery in British History Worksheet
11/7 - pgs. 529-536
Rococo Journal
Schama’s “Britain Incorporated” video
Senior Pages
11/8 - pgs. 537-544
"Men of the Pen"
Peter the Great’s Decrees [Substantial vs. Superficial]
11/11 - pgs 544-551
Descartes (journal)
Bayle’s HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY [Take time to scroll down and look at “The Bayle Enigma”]
11/14 - Absolutism & Constitutionalism Exam
You'll see:
Maps #21-32
Summary of English Democracy "Fill Ins"
Identifications:
- Constitutionalism
- Absolutism
- Louis XIV
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Frederick William of Hohenzollern
- James I
- Charles I
- Oliver Cromwell
- Glorious Revolution
- Restoration
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Social Contract
- Benedict Spinoza
- John Milton
- Classicism
- Atlantic System
- Consumer Revolution
- Agricultural Revolution
- Rococo
- Pietism
- War of Spanish Succession
- Peace of Utrecht
- Robert Walpole
- Peter the Great
- Westernization of Russia
- Great Northern War
- Enlightenment
- Voltaire
- Isaac Newton
- Baron de Montesquieu
Definitions:
- The Fronde
- Moliere
- Versailles
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
- Cornelius Jansen
- Blaise Pascal
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- Bureaucracy
- War of Devolution, Dutch War, War of the League of Augsburg
- Mercantilism/Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Leopold I
- Cossack
- Jan Sobieski
- Stenka Razin
- Levellers
- New Model Army
- Rump Parliament
- Charles II
- James II
- Tory & Whig
- William, Prince of Orange
- "Black Code"
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Pierre Bayle
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Classicism
- Salon
- Plantations
- Quilombos
- Mestizos
- Buccaneers
- Addison and Steele
- George Frideric Handel
- Antoine Watteau
- Daniel Defoe
- The Regency
- Queen Anne, George I
- Table of Ranks
- Bishop Bousset
Short Answer:
- How “absolute” was the power of Louis XIV?
- Why did absolutism flourish everywhere in eastern Europe except Poland-Lithuania?
- What differences over religion and politics caused the conflict between king and Parliament in England?
- Why did constitutionalism thrive in the Dutch Republic and the British North American colonies, even as their participation in the slave trade grew?
- How did elite and popular culture become more separate in the seventeenth century?
- What accounts for the success of absolutism in some parts of Europe and its failure in others?
- How did religious differences in the late seventeenth century still cause political conflict?
- Why was the search for order a major themes in science, politics and the arts during this period?
- How was consumerism related to slavery in the early eighteenth century?
- How were new social trends reflected in cultural life in the late 1600s and early 1700s?
- What events and developments led to greater stability and less warfare in the European state system?
- What were the major differences between the wars of the first half of the eighteenth century and those of the seventeenth century?
- How did the rise of slavery and the plantation system change European politics and society?
- Why was the Enlightenment born just at the moment that the Atlantic system took shape?
- What were the major differences between the wars of the first half of the eighteenth century and those of the seventeenth century?