AP European History Summer Assignment Students enrolled in the 2018 – 2019 Advanced Placement European History course are required to complete a summer assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to establish/maintain a foundational skill-set and knowledge/understanding of content before classes begin in August. The assignment will require students to: • Read and analyze primary source documents • Read and analyze secondary source documents • Implement historical thinking skills The range of study for AP European History is c.1450 (Renaissance) – the present. This assignment is designed to introduce students to the events and movements that paved the way for the resurgence of classicism, and the “rebirth” of Europe. First Reading: Excerpts from The World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage (“The Imperial Vine” and “High Spirits, High Seas”) Second Reading: Petrarch, “A Criticism of Contemporary Learning”; Bruni, “For Love of Greek Literature”, and “On Learning and Literature” ASSIGNMENT In a single Word Document, respond to the following prompts in order. Submit your assignment by emailing it to Coach Guidry ([email protected]) by JULY 22, 2018. 1. Standage argues “Wine also provides the greatest scope of connoisseurship and social differentiation. Appreciation of wines from different places began with the Greeks, and the link between the type of wine and the social status of the drinker was strengthened by the Romans. The symposion and convivium live on in the modern suburban dinner party where wine fuels an almost ritual discussion of certain topics (politics, business, career advancement, house prices) ... It is a scene Rome would recognize at once.” What evidence does Standage use to support this assertion? What does he argue is the relationship between vintage and social hierarchy, and what is that relationship’s lasting impact on Western society? 2. Why did wine fall out of favor with the rising Muslim Empire of the 500 – 700’s? 3. How does the city of Cordoba reflect the influence of the Muslim world on Mediterranean Europe in juxtaposed to the declining influence of that Catholic church? 4. What made Petrarch aware that a rebirth of classical learning was necessary in his time (use references to the source)? 5. Using Standage, the primary sources, and any needed outside knowledge, compare the origin and spread of distillation with the revival of classical learning.

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AP European History Summer Assignment

Students enrolled in the 2018 – 2019 Advanced Placement European History course are required to complete a summer assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to establish/maintain a foundational skill-set and knowledge/understanding of content before classes begin in August. The assignment will require students to:

• Read and analyze primary source documents • Read and analyze secondary source documents • Implement historical thinking skills

The range of study for AP European History is c.1450 (Renaissance) – the present. This assignment is designed to introduce students to the events and movements that paved the way for the resurgence of classicism, and the “rebirth” of Europe. First Reading: Excerpts from The World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage (“The Imperial Vine” and “High Spirits, High Seas”) Second Reading: Petrarch, “A Criticism of Contemporary Learning”; Bruni, “For Love of Greek Literature”, and “On Learning and Literature” ASSIGNMENT In a single Word Document, respond to the following prompts in order. Submit your assignment by emailing it to Coach Guidry ([email protected]) by JULY 22, 2018.

1. Standage argues “Wine also provides the greatest scope of connoisseurship and social differentiation. Appreciation of wines from different places began with the Greeks, and the link between the type of wine and the social status of the drinker was strengthened by the Romans. The symposion and convivium live on in the modern suburban dinner party where wine fuels an almost ritual discussion of certain topics (politics, business, career advancement, house prices) ... It is a scene Rome would recognize at once.” What evidence does Standage use to support this assertion? What does he argue is the relationship between vintage and social hierarchy, and what is that relationship’s lasting impact on Western society?

2. Why did wine fall out of favor with the rising Muslim Empire of the 500 – 700’s?

3. How does the city of Cordoba reflect the influence of the Muslim world on Mediterranean

Europe in juxtaposed to the declining influence of that Catholic church?

4. What made Petrarch aware that a rebirth of classical learning was necessary in his time (use references to the source)?

5. Using Standage, the primary sources, and any needed outside knowledge, compare the origin

and spread of distillation with the revival of classical learning.