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While covering the broad topic of world history, History of Western Society Since 1300 for AP® ensures its focus aligns with the AP World History course by taking a takes a global, thematic, and comparative approach to history.
Note: This is an abbreviated version of the full A History of Western Society textbook. Beginning in the year 1300 C.E., this version starts at Chapter 11 and page 322.
c. 1450 to c. 1648
Prelude to Disaster
Climate Change and Famine • Social Consequences
The Black Death
Pathology • Spread of the Disease • Care of the Sick • Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects
Evaluating the Evidence 11.1 Dance of Death
The Hundred Years’ War
Causes • English Successes • Joan of Arc and France’s Victory • Aftermath
Evaluating the Evidence 11.2 The Trial of Joan of Arc
Challenges to the Church
The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism • Critiques, Divisions, and Councils • Lay Piety and Mysticism
Social Unrest in a Changing Society
Peasant Revolts • Urban Conflicts • Sex in the City • Fur- Collar Crime • Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions • Literacy and Vernacular Literature
Evaluating the Evidence 11.3 Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Mapping the Past The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Europe
Living in the Past Treating the Plague
Individuals in Society Meister Eckhart
Thinking Like a Historian Popular Revolts in the Late Middle Ages
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy
Trade and Prosperity • Communes and Republics of Northern Italy • City-States and the Balance of Power
Evaluating the Evidence 12.1 A Sermon of Savonarola
Intellectual Change
Humanism • Education • Political Thought • Christian Humanism • The Printed Word
Evaluating the Evidence 12.2 Thomas More, Utopia
Art and the Artist
Patronage and Power • Changing Artistic Styles • The Renaissance Artist
Social Hierarchies
Race and Slavery • Wealth and the Nobility • Gender Roles
Politics and the State in Western Europe
France • England • Spain
Evaluating the Evidence 12.3 A Gold Coin of Ferdinand and Isabella
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Thinking Like a Historian Humanist Learning
Mapping the Past The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448–1552
Individuals in Society Leonardo da Vinci
Living in the Past Male Clothing and Masculinity
13 Reformations and Religious Wars 1500–1600
The Early Reformation
The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century • Martin Luther • Protestant Thought • The Appeal of Protestant Ideas • The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War • Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women
Evaluating the Evidence 13.1 Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
Evaluating the Evidence 13.2 Domestic Scene
The Reformation and German Politics
The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty • Religious Wars in Switzerland and Germany
The Spread of Protestant Ideas
Scandinavia • Henry VIII and the Reformation in England • Upholding Protestantism in England • Calvinism • The Reformation in Eastern Europe
Evaluating the Evidence 13.3 Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion
The Catholic Reformation
Papal Reform and the Council of Trent • New and Reformed Religious Orders
Religious Violence
French Religious Wars • The Netherlands Under Charles V • The Great European Witch-Hunt
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Individuals in Society Anna Jansz of Rotterdam
Living in the Past Uses of Art in the Reformation
Thinking Like a Historian Social Discipline in the Reformation
Mapping the Past Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555
World Contacts Before Columbus
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean • The Trading States of Africa • The Ottoman and Persian Empires • Genoese and Venetian Middlemen
The European Voyages of Discovery
Causes of European Expansion • Technology and the Rise of Exploration • The Portuguese Overseas Empire • Spain’s Voyages to the Americas • Spain “Discovers” the Pacific • Early Exploration by Northern European Powers
Evaluating the Evidence 14.1 Columbus Describes His First Voyage
Conquest and Settlement
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires • Portuguese Brazil • Colonial Empires of England and France • Colonial Administration
The Era of Global Contact
Indigenous Population Loss and Economic Exploitation • Life in the Colonies • The Columbian Exchange • Sugar and Slavery • Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects • The Birth of the Global Economy
Evaluating the Evidence 14.2 Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives
Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Religious Conversion • European Debates About Indigenous Peoples • New Ideas About Race • Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity • William Shakespeare and His Influence
Evaluating the Evidence 14.3 Tenochtitlan Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Mapping the Past Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Doña Marina?
Living in the Past Foods of the Columbian Exchange
Individuals in Society Juan de Pareja