World History 10 - Documents and Links

Course Documents

Course Guide

Primary Source Document Question Sheet

Unit 1 - European Exploration and the Expansion of World Trade

Schedule of Readings

PowerPoint Presentations

Day 1 - Global Interactions and the Commercial Revolution

Day 2 - European Preconditions for Exploration and Expansion

Day 3 - Christopher Columbus - Hero or Villian? (no PowerPoint)

Day 4 - European Conquest's Impact on South and Central America (including art from Day 6)

Day 5 - European Conquest's Impact on Africa (minus ArtStor art)

Day 6 - European Conquest's Impact on North America

Unit 2 - Absolutism and Constitutionalism

Schedule of Readings

PowerPoint Presentations

Day 1 - Reformation and Religious War in Europe (1517-1648)

Day 1a - Reformation and Religious War in Europe (1517-1648) continued

Day 2 - Absolutism in Spain and France

Day 3 - L'etat c'est moi - Louis the XIV and the Summit of French Absolutism (no PowerPoint)

Day 4 - The Sun King - Louis XIV continued

Day 5 - Absolutism in Eastern Euorpe - Russia under Peter the Great

Day 6 - The Culture of Absolutism - French Classicism and the Baroque (small version)

Day 7 - England - The Decline of Absolutism and the English Civil War

Day 8 - England - The Restoration and Glorious Revolution

Unit 3 - The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Mini Unit 1 - The Scientific Revolution

Schedule of Readings

Readings

Day 3 - Nicholas Copernicus - On the Revolutions and Commentaries (selections)

Day 4 - Francis Bacon - The New Organon

Day 5 - Robert Boyle and Rene Descartes Reading

Day 6 - Isaac Newton - Principia

PowerPoint Presentations

Day 1 - The Scientific Revolution: Background and Overview

Day 2 - The Scientific Revolution: Causes and Consequences

Day 3 - The Copernican Revolution - A New Earth?

Day 4 - Baconian Empiricism - A New Logic?

Day 5 - Mechanical Philsophy - A New Physics?

Day 6 - The Newtonian Synthesis - A New Universe?

Mini Unit 2 - The Enlightenment

Schedule of Readings

Readings

Day 4 - Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?

Day 5 - G. P. Gooch - Frederick the Philosophe (change from syllabus)

Day 6 - Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws

Day 7 - Voltaire - Political Essays

Day 8 - Rousseau - Emile

PowerPoint Presentations

Day 1 - The Enlightenment: A World Lit by the Lamp of Reason

Day 2 - The Enlightenment: Cracks in Reason's Lamp

Day 3 - The Enlightenment: Enlightened Despots?  (broken PowerPoint - don't worry about it)

Day 4 - The Enlightenment: Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?

Day 5 - The Enlightenment: Frederick the Great (no PowerPoint)

Day 6 - The Enlightenment: Baron de Montesquieu - The Spirit of The Laws

Day 7 - The Enlightenment: Voltaire - Politicial Writings (Philosophical Dictionary)

Day 8 - The Enlightenment: Rousseau - Emile

Unit 4 - The Age of Revolutions in Western Politics, 1775-1815

Schedule of Readings

Readings

Day 3 - Gordon S. Wood - The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Day 5 - Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen

Day 6 - Robespierre - Justification of the Use of Terror