Topic

Core questions

Core concepts

The Renaissance

1. What is the Renaissance?

2. Where did it start and why?

3. What are the major changes made during this period in these aspects?

   • Ways of thinking

   • Art & architecture

   • Literature

   • Science

4. Who are they? What are they famous for?

   • Michelangelo

   • Leonardo da vinci

   • William Shakespeare

   • Galileo

   • Copernicus

   • Martin Luther

5. What are the impacts of the Renaissance?

A general understanding of

• Classical civilization

• Humanism

Absolutism

1. What is absolutism / absolute monarchy?

2. When is the age of absolutism?

3. Why did people at that time generally accept absolutism?

• The divine right

• Heredity

• Privilege

The Enlightenment

1. What is the Enlightenment?

2. What are the political ideas of major Enlightenment thinkers?

   • Montesquieu

   • Rousseau

   • John Locke

   • Descartes

3. How did/does the Enlightenment influence Europe and the world?

• Enlightenment

• Natural rights

• Equality

• Liberty

• Social contract

• Checks and balance

• Constitution

• Rule of law

• Revolution

The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

1. How did the colonists unite America?

2. How did the legislature take part in the structure of the federal government?

3. How did the American Revolution happen?

4. Why did the people in the Enlightenment object to absolute power?

5. Explain one of the British acts that created economic discontent amongst the American colonists.

• Independence

• Discontent

• Absolute Power