Blog #4-French Revolution: Radical Phase

Look over the website and answer the following:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REV/RADICAL.HTM
1. Describe the summer of 1792 in Paris.
2. Who were the Girondists? Jacobins? Sans-Culottes?
3. Describe the Reign of Terror- Include the Committee of Public Safety and Marat, Danton and Robespierre.
END the reading at the Thermidorean Reaction.

Good video featuring Viva La Vida from Cold Play. Enjoy. (Notice how Napoleon is portrayed at first and then at the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF4lPWU_qxY

Blog#3-English Civil War

Using the following site, write a one-page summary (typed) of the English Civil War. You do not have to use all of the readings on this web site. (this assignment is 30 pts)

http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/english/

Absolutism Blog #2

Maria Theresa, Austria.
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/mariatheres.html
1. Years of Maria Theresa's reign:
2. Explain the Pragmatic Sanction.
3. What was the War of Austrian Succession?
4. Describe her life after the death of her husband.

Elizabeth I, England
http://tudorhistory.org/elizabeth/
1. Write one paragraph describing Elizabeth's early reign and one paragraph describing her later reign in England. (Do you think she was successful? why or why not?)-- you will have to click on the second page of the site.

Absolutism- Blog #1

Read the following about Peter the Great and answer the questions.

http://www.historydoctor.net/Advanced%20Placement%20European%20History/Notes/absolutism_in_russia_part_two.htm

1. Explain the 'Time of Troubles' and how Michael Romanov became czar.
2. Describe the two upheavals during Michael's reign.
3. What did Peter like as a young boy?
4. What did Peter do on his trip to the 'West'?
5. How did Peter treat facial hair when he returned?
6. Describe the Great Northern War.

Explorers

Great story on Coronado trying to find the city of gold.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/seven-cities-of-cibola/

Megellan's death-
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/magellan.htm

Elizabeth's pirates-
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-elizabethan-pirates.htm

Renaissance #4

The Scientific Revolution-
Use these two websites to help finish your identification section of your
Renaissance handout. I will check these as a homework grade.
http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/science/
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/terms.html

Renaissance #3

Good site on the artists of the Northern Renaissance- use for your personal notes.
http://www.robinurton.com/history/Renaissance/northrenaiss.htm

Read the following on the Protestant Reformation and answer the following questions.
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture3c.html
1. Describe three reasons why Europeans were becomming dissatisfied with the church.
2. What did the Fourth Lateran Council establish?
3. Briefly discuss some of the challenges the church faced in the 14th and 15th centuries.
4. Who was Martin Luther and what did he do in 1517?
5. Who was John Tetzel?
6. Describe John Calvin's second wave of Reformation.

The 95 Theses - look over this
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/luther95.txt
Good video about Luther after the 95 Theses... Take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqWnEpZvjs