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Period 2: 1648-1815

Absolutism and Constitutionalism

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
What Was the Treaty of Westphalia?
What Was Absolutism?
Who Was Louis XIV (Part 1)?
Who Was Louis XIV (Part 2)?
What Was Mannerist Art?
Live Review Session on Absolutism
Other videos:
The Famous Monty Python Witch Scene
A Simpson Witch Trial
The Foundation of Absolutism
Prussian Absolutism
Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia
Crash Course: The Dutch East India Company
What is a Stadtholder?
​The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
​Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
The English Civil War in 3 Minutes
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The Glorious Revolution in 3 Minutes
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Baroque Overview
Primary sources:
Jakob von Grimmelshausen, Simplicius Simplicissimus
Oliver Cromwell on the Victory at Naseby 
Oliver Cromwell on the Massacre at Drogheda
Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs 
Lord Clarendon, The History
Absolutism and Constitutionalism Study Guide
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What you need to know about the Age of Absolutism
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Absolutism and Constitutionalism Suggested Pacing
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My screencast lectures:
​Absolutism and Constitutionalism
Explore art with the Google Cultural Institute:
​Mannerism
​Dutch Realism
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Baroque
Interesting articles:
How to be a successful monarch
A brief history of the Borgia family
Toys and Games that Killed in Tudor England
The execution of Peter Warbeck
Guy Fawkes "is like a modern-day jihadist," says counter-terrorism expert
Has history been unfair to Charles I?
The Economist explains what the House of Lords is for
A whiteboard mind map of this unit!
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The Enlightenment

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
What Was the Enlightenment?
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Who Was Voltaire?
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Who Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Primary sources:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Images of Women and the Enlightenment Salon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Voltaire, The Ignorant Philosopher
Voltaire, Candide
Enlightenment Study Guide
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The Eighteenth Century

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
What Was the Agricultural Revolution?
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What Was the Putting-Out System?
Other videos:
Enlightened Absolutism (Tom Richey)
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Horrible Histories: Born to Rule
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Crash Course: The Seven Years' War
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Crash Course: Captain Cook
 Primary sources: 
Comtesse de Boigne, Memoirs
Letters between Frederick the Great and his father
Letter of the Baron d Breteuil
Catherine the Great, Decree on Serfs
Robert Clive's Account of His Victory at Plassey
Richard Sheridan, The Rivals
David Davies, The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered
The Leeds Woolen Workers' Petition (1786)
Statements on Poverty in France
Eighteenth Century Study Guide
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Interesting articles:
The Success of Sweet Smells
Possible 1665 'plague pit' latest unearthed link to London's storied past
Historians Examine Treasure Trove of 17th-Century Letters
The goods German citizens were forbidden to consume
A brief history of underwear
Dressing to Impress in the 17th Century
 


The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
​Questions about the French Revolution
Other videos:
History Channel: French Revolution
Crash Course: French Revolution
​The Old Regime (Tom Richey)
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The Estates General of 1789 (Tom Richey)
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The National Assembly (Tom Richey)
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
​Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Headless Monarchy
​The Reign of Terror
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History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ten Minute History: French Revolution
Primary sources:
Jacques Necker, Preface to the King's Accounts
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
J.G. Milligen, The Revolutionary Tribunal 
Maximilien Robespierre, Speech on Revolutionary Government
The Temple of Reason
Napoleon Bonaparte, Proclamation to the French Troops
French Revolution Study Guide
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Chapter 19 Concept Outline
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Interesting articles:
The French Revolution: Facts and Summary
8 Things You May Not Know about the Guillotine
14,000 Images of the French Revolution
Why is there a soccer team called the "Monkey Hangers"?
Rethinking Napoleon's Roots
Austerlitz: The Battle of Two Emperors
In Germany, Santa's Sidekick Is a Cloven-Hooved, Child-Whipping Demon
Why Napoleon Merits the Title "The Great"

Paul Sargent Makes History

  • Home
  • My YouTube Channel
  • AP European History
    • Historical Reasoning Skills
    • Thematic Learning Objectives >
      • Interaction of Europe and the World
      • Poverty and Prosperity
      • Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
      • States and Other Institutions of Power
      • Individual and Society
      • National and European Identity
    • Concept Outline
    • Period 1: 1450-1648
    • Period 2: 1648-1815
    • Period 3: 1815-1914
    • Period 4: 1914-Present
    • Exam Review Resources
  • AP Government
    • Concept Outline
    • Constitutional Underpinnings
    • Political Beliefs and Behaviors
    • Linkage Institutions
    • Institutions of Government
    • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    • Exam Review
  • Government and Economics
    • Foundations of Government
    • The Constitution
    • Executive Branch
    • The Judicial Branch
    • Voting and Elections
  • My Blog