AP Euro Summer Assignment

AP  European  History:  Chapters  12  &  13  Summer  Assignment  &  Study  Guide     Over  the  summer  you  will  need  to  read  chapters  12  &  13  from  our  textbook,  Western   Civilization  by  Jackson  J.  Spielvogel,  9th  AP  Edition,  Since  1300.  You  will  be  tested  on   these  readings  on  the  first  day  of  AP  Boot  Camp.  If  you  have  any  questions,  please   feel  free  to  email  Ms.  Feliú  at:  [email protected].  The  following  Key  Terms,  Figures,  and   Focus  Questions  are  information  that  you  will  need  to  know  from  the  book.     Key  Terms:     Renaissance   Christian  humanism   estates   pluralism   individualism   confession   secularism   justification   humanism   transubstantiation   civic  humanism   millenarianism   Neoplatonism   predestination   Hermeticism   Catholic  Reformation   pantheism   Huguenots   new  monarchies   politiques   nepotism   Puritans Peace  of  Lodi     Key  Figures:     Medici  family   Michelangelo   Baldassare  Castiglione   Donato  Bramante   Charles  VIII   Jan  van  Eyck   Ferdinand  of  Aragon   Charles  VII   Niccolo  Machiavelli   Louis  XI   Cesare  Borgia   Henry  Tudor   Petrarch   Richard  III   Desiderious  Erasmus   Henry  VII   Marsilio  FicinoIsotta   Isabella  of  Castile   Giovanni  Pico  della  Mirandola   Ferdinand  of  Aragon   Isotta  Nogarola   Maximilian  I   Cassandra  Fedele   King  Matthias  Corvinus   Laura  Cereta   Ivan  III   Francesco  Guicciardimi   Sultan  Mehmet  II   Johannes  Gutenbergi     John  Wyclif   Leonardo  da  Vinci   John  Hus   Masaccio   Julius  II   Sandro  Botticelli   Leo  X   Donato  di  Donatello   Thomas  More   Filippo  Brunellescht   Henry  VIII   Raphael   Martin  Luther  

Philip  Melanchthon   Thomas  Cromwell   Thomas  Muntzer   Edward  VI   Charles  V   Mary  Tudor   Francis  I   John  Calvin   Suleiman  the  Magnificent   Francis  Xavier   Henry  II   Pope  Paul  III   Ulrich  Zwingli   Catherine  de  Medici   Anne  Boleyn   Philip  II   Clement  VII   Elizabeth  I     Focus  Questions:     What  characteristics  distinguish  the  Renaissance  from  the  Middle  Ages?     What  major  social  changes  occurred  during  the  Renaissance?     How  did  Machiavelli’s  works  reflect  the  political  realities  of  Renaissance  Italy?     What  was  Humanism,  and  what  effect  did  it  have  on  philosophy,  education,  attitudes   toward  politics,  and  the  writing  of  history?     What  were  the  chief  characteristics  of  Renaissance  art,  and  how  did  it  differ  in  Italy  and   northern  Europe?     Why  do  historians  sometimes  refer  to  the  monarchies  of  the  late  fifteenth  century  as  “new   monarchies”  or  “Renaissance  states?”     What  were  the  policies  of  the  Renaissance  popes,  and  what  impact  did  those  policies  have   on  the  Catholic  Church?     What  were  the  chief  ideas  of  the  Christian  humanists,  and  how  did  they  differ  from  the   ideas  of  the  Protestant  reformers?     What  were  Martin  Luther’s  main  disagreements  with  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  what   political,  economic,  and  social  conditions  help  explain  why  the  movement  he  began  spread   so  quickly  across  Europe?     What  were  the  main  tenets  of  Lutheranism,  Zwinglianism,  Anabaptism,  and  Calvinism,  and   how  did  they  differ  from  each  other  and  from  Catholicism?  What  impact  did  political,   economic,  and  social  conditions  have  on  the  development  of  these  four  reform  movements?     What  impact  did  the  Protestant  Reformation  have  on  society  in  the  sixteenth  century?     What  measures  did  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  take  to  reform  itself  and  to  combat   Protestantism  in  the  sixteenth  century?    

What  role  did  politics,  economic  and  social  conditions,  and  religion  play  in  the  European   wars  of  the  sixteenth  century?