Monday 12/12
Russia: Land of the Tsars (History Channel)
Question: Trace the Russian monarchy from its founding through Peter the Great. (Consider PERSIA)
Tuesday 12/13
Kagan: pp 492-501 (stop @Russia)
Discussion Topics:
-Rise & Fall of The Netherlands
-Emergence of Austria & Prussia
-The Ottoman Empire
Wednesday 12/14
Kagan: pp 501-507
Discussion Topic:
-Russia under Peter the Great
Document Analysis:
Absolutism of Peter I & Catherine II of Russia
Thursday 12/15
Sherman: pp. 83-84, “Letter to a Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy, & “Women of the Third Estate”
Kagan: pp. 514-524 (stop at Children & the World of the Family Economy)
Discussion Topics:
-Aristocracy v. Peasantry
-Women of the Old Regime
Friday 12/16
Sherman: pp. 88-91 (all sources)
Kagan: pp. 524-529 (stop at Industrial Revolution)
Discussion Topics:
-Aristocracy v. Peasantry
-Agricultural Revolution
