Sylabus for AP European Histor

Advance Placement European History- Syllabus I. The High Middle Ages 1. Important historical figures during the High Middle Ages. 1. Roger Bacon- Roger Bacon wrote Opius Maius, which said that experimental science was the only way to find an answer. Also he denounced the deductive reasoning of the time saying that inductive reasoning was the best way to find an answer 2. Thomas Aquinas- He was not a radical thinker during the High Middle Ages, in fact, he …

…the Lepsic debates he said he agreed with the dissident theologians of the 14th to 13th century and made him a heretic. He took refuge with the German princes and started Prodstantism. 3. John Eck- Faced Luther in the Lepsic debates. 4. John Calvin- A radical Prodestantistant who was expelled from France and started a throcracy in Geneva, Switzerland. He said humans were bad and was extremely intollerent. His religon would eventually form into Presbyterians and Purtains.