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A.P. EUROPEAN HISTORY
Syllabus
A.P. European History is a challenging course designed to be the equivalent of an introductory
college level course. Students will be exposed to a general overview of the Middle Ages during
the summer months and then be expected to demonstrate knowledge of basic chronology and
major events from 1450 to the present. Within that chronology, several broad themes will be
examined: intellectual-cultural, political-diplomatic, and social-economic history. Emphasis will be
placed on skills such as analyzing historical evidence from a variety of interpretations, writing
analytical and interpretive essays, and taking effective notes.
Units of study will be taught chronologically and will include the following topics:
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Introduction/The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The Reformation/ Wars Over Beliefs
Absolutism and Constitutionalism
The 18th Century: Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Economics, Society
French Revolution/ Age of Napoleon
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Revolution
Mass Politics, Unification, and Imperialism
World War I and the Russian Revolution
The Inter –War Years
World War II and the Rise of Dictatorships
1945 – Present
Review
UNIT 1: EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES
MP 1
WEEK S
1–2
A. Introduction to the Course
1. Syllabus/ Course Expectations
2. Summer Assignments
3. Cornell Note-taking review
4. Essay: “What is History?”
5. Map Activity
6. P.E.R.S.I.A. Chart
B. Middle Ages
1. PowerPoint: Overview of Middle Ages
2. Geography and Climate
3. The Black Death: causes, effects, cultural beliefs
4. Activity: Role of the Merchant
5. The Manorial System
6. The Medieval Church and the Crusades
7. Art and Architecture
8. Decline of the Middle Ages
9. Panel Discussion re: Summer Assignment: “Were the Dark Ages Actually
Dark?
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities :”Role of the Merchant”, “Bring
Out Your Dead”, Viewpoints; 1995 AP European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 2: RENAISSANCE
MP 1
WEEKS
3–4
A. Renaissance
1. P.E.R.S.I.A. chart
2. Art and architecture
3. Renaissance Art Project
4. Printing Press
5. Politics/ New Monarchs
6. Women in the Renaissance
7. Exploration
8. Renaissance Outside of Italy
9. Commercial Revolution
10. The Prince
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Renaissance Art Project; AP
European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 3: REFORMATION / WARS OVER BELIEFS
A. Reformation
1. Notes: Background to Reform
2. Reformer Web/Notes: Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Henry VIII, Anabaptists
3. Witchcraft: DBQ, FRQ
6, Catholic Counter-Reformation
MP 1 S
WEEK
WEEK
5-6 S
5-6
B. Wars Over Beliefs
1.Tudor Dynasty
2.Spain’s Catholic Crusade
a. Philip II Role Play
b. Escorial PPT
c. Spanish Armada PPT
d. Notes: Revolt in Netherlands
e. Philip II FRQ
3. French Wars of Religion
a. PPT: St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, War of the Three Henries,
Henry IV, Edict of Nantes
4. 30 Years War: Timeline/chart
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Philip II Role Play, Annotated
Timeline; AP European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 4: ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM
MP 2
WEEK S
1-2
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Western Europe
Age of Louis XIV
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
Rise and Fall of Empires: Holy Roman, Poland, Ottoman, Austrian
Rise of Prussian and Russian Absolutism
Dutch Golden Age
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Annotated Timeline; AP
European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 5: THE 18TH CENTURY: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, ENLIGHTENMENT,
ECONOMICS, And SOCIETY
MP 2
WEEK S
3-4
A. Scientific Revolution
1. Causes
2. Key People
3. Implications: political, military, economic, religious
4. Comparison: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
B. Enlightenment
1. Overview
2. Changes: Demographic, Economics
3. Philosophers
4. Deism
5. Enlightened Despots
6. New Ideas: Political, Social Theory
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Enlightenment Salon, AP
European DBQ – Women Scientists; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 6: FRENCH REVOLUTION/ AGE OF NAPOLEON
A. French Revolution
MP 2
WEEK S
5-6
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2.
3.
4.
The Old Regime
Causes: social, economic, political
Brinton Theory of Revolution
Chronology, Periodization: Terror, Republic of Virtue, Robespierre,
Committee of Public Safety
5. Consequences
B. Age of Napoleon
1. Rise: Causes/consequences
2. Foreign/domestic policy
3. Nationalism
4. Congress of Vienna
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Revolution Pamphlet; Annotated
Timeline, AP European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 7: INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND REVOLUTION
MP 3
WEEKS
1–3
A. The –Ism’s: nationalism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, utopianism,
anarchism, Marxism, capitalism, romanticism
B. Industrial Revolution:
1. Causes
2. Why Britain?
3. Effects: Labor, family, women, crime, and order
4. Reforms
C. Revolutions 1848: Revolutions of 1848: France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany
D. Arts
E. Migration
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Industrial Revolution Editorial,
ISM’s T-shirt; AP European DBQ; Supplemental Readings
UNIT 8: MASS POLITICS, UNIFICATION, AND IMPERIALISM
MP 3
WEEKS
4-6
A. Napoleon III: domestic, foreign policy
B. Jews: emancipation  anti-Semitism
C. The Arts: Delacroix, Friedrich, Marat
D. Unification:
1. Italy: Cavour, Garibaldi, Verdi
2. Realpolitik and the Arts
3. Germany: Bismarck
4. Germany, Austria-Hungary
E. Science, psychology, anthropology (Freud, Einstein)
F. France: Franco-Prussian War, Paris Commune, Third Republic
G. Russia: social/political changes
H. Imperialism
1. Alliances
2. Arms race
3. Scramble for Africa
4. Russo Japanese War
5. Nationalism
6. Comparison: Old v. New
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Verdi excerpts; Imperialism
Newscast; Supplemental Readings; 1998 DBQ
*** MIDTERM EXAM ***
UNIT 9: WORLD WAR I AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MP 4
WEEKS
1-2
A. European Peace and Prosperity
B. Causes of WWI
1. Long-Term
2. Short-Term
C. The War to End All Wars
1. Key battles, people
2. Weapons
3. Trench Warfare
4. Home Front
5. Propaganda/Public Relations
D. Treaty of Versailles
1. maps
2. C/C treaty with Vienna
E. Russian Revolution
1. Russia Prior to Revolution: Agricultural/Industrial Conditions, Alexander III
Domestic Policy
2. Lenin/Bolsheviks
3. Stalin: Trotsky, purges, foreign/domestic policies/Five Year Plan
4. Role of Marxism
5. Comparison: French
6. Effects
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Changing Map of Europe, WWI
Simulation; Supplemental Readings;
UNIT 10: THE INTER-WAR YEARS
MP 4
WEEK
3
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B.
C.
D.
E.
World Economy: fascism, communism, free-enterprise
Great Depression
Weimar Republic
Spanish Civil War
Women’s Rights: England, France, Germany; Class differences
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Activities: Militant Suffragette Packet;
Supplemental Readings
UNIT 11: WORLD WAR II AND THE RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS
MP 4
WEEK
4-5
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Factors Leading to WWII: Versailles, Taylor Thesis, Economy
The War: events, major battles, alliances, Holocaust
Dictatorships: Totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism
Propaganda: Hitler, Stalin
C/C Origins WWI v. WWII
C/C Peace Settlements: WWI v. WWII
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Dictatorships Jigsaw; Supplemental
Readings; DBQ
UNIT 12: 1945 - PRESENT
MP 4
WEEK
6
MP 5
1-4
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C.
D.
E.
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G.
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Cold War Origins
American/European Perspectives
Life in Soviet Russia
Cold War Around the World
Decolonization
Collapse USSR; German Reunification
Economics: welfare state, stagflation
European Independence Movements
European Union
Post-Cold War Issues
1. environmental independence
2. Demographics/Migration
3. Post-Modernism
4. Gender/Race/Economic Issues
Major Assignments/Assessments: Chapter Tests/quizzes; Supplemental Readings; Soviet Union
Metaphor; Eastern Europe Recipe; DBQ/Thematic Essay; Guest Speakers: Eastern Europe
UNIT 13: REVIEW
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Primary Text:
Hunt, Lynn, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-Chia Hsia, and Bonnie
G. Smith. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2001.
Document Reader:
Sherman, Dennis. Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations: From
the Renaissance to the Present. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher
Education, 2000.
UNIT 1 THE MIDDLE AGES – SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
College Board. 1995 European History DBQ
Cosman, Madeline Pelner. Women at Work in Medieval Europe. New York: Checkmark Books,
2000.
Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850. New York: Basic Books,
2000. (pp. 15-21; pp. 28 – 33; pp. 38 – 43)
"The Great Famine (1315 - 1317) and the Black Death (1346 - 1351)"
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/black_death.html
Hooker, Richard. "The Middle Ages" http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/MA.HTM
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages (BOCES Video V14233)
Janu, David B. "Bring Out Your Dead": Recreating the Black Death in the Classroom. Cary: Bell,
Book, & Camera Productions, 2000.
Maalouf, Amin. Crusades Through Arab Eyes. Schockan, Reissue Edition, 1989.
Palmer, R.R. and Joel Colton. A History of the Modern World. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
"The Peasants Revolt" http://www.fordham.edu/hallsall/source/anon1381.html
"St. Thomas Aquinas" from Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas, ed. Anton C. Pegis (New York:
Modern Library, 1948) pp. 24, 27.
"Two Views of Medieval Life", Chapter 8, World History: Connections to Today
Weatherford, Jack. The History of Money. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1988.
World History, Book 1: Beginning to 1200 A.D. Center for Learning, 2003.
UNIT 2 RENAISSANCE – SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
Advanced Placement European History I (Center for Learning, 1988) Lesson 3
"Renaissance New Directions"; Lesson 4 "Rise of New Monarchs", Lesson 5
"Age of Discovery"; Lesson 9 "The Commercial Revolution"; Lesson 6 The
Protestant Revolt: A Move Towards the Unknown"
Caliguire, A., Leach,R., and Ober, L. Advanced Placement European History I: The
Modern World: New Directions. The Center for Learning, 1988.
College Board. DBQ: 1993, 2004
Crosby, Alfred W. “Infectious Disease and the Demography of the Atlantic Peoples”. Guns, Seeds,
and Animas Studies in Ecological History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp Publishers, 1994.
Harrison, Steve. Folens Photopack Tudor Monarchs. United Kingdom: Folens Limited, 1995.
The Lives of Renaissance Women: A Co-operatively Planned Humanities Unit for the Late
Intermediate Level. The British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 1996.
http://www.bctf.bc.ca/lessonaids/online/LA9245.html
McRae, Lee. Handbook of the Renaissance: Europe 1400 - 1600. Berkeley: Lee McRae, 1999.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the
Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization: Since 1500 From
Renaissance Civilization through the Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
UNIT 3: WARS OF BELIEFS - SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
Caliguire, A., Leach,R., and Ober, L. Advanced Placement European History I: The Modern World:
New Directions. The Center for Learning, 1988.
Edwards, Mark U., Jr. Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther. University of Califiornia Press: 1994
Hooker, Richard. “The Wars of Religion”. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/WARS.HTM
Martin Luther and the Reformation. (MindSparks Series). Fort Atkinson: Highsmith, Inc., 1998.
Newman, Alex. “The Wars of Religion, Part I and Part II”. http://www.lepg.org/wars.htm.
Ozment, Steven. Bügermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth –Century German Town. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the
Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
The Protestant Revolt: A Move Towards the Unknown" (Lesson 6, Advanced Placement European
History I, Center for Learning, 1988.)
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization: Since 1500 From
Renaissance Civilization through the Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
UNIT 4: ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM – SUPPLEMENTAL
MATERIALS
Excerpts from Elizabeth I, Jaques Benigne Bossuet, Cardinal Richelieu, Jean Domat, Duke c’ St.
Simon, James I, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Philippe du
Plessis-Mornay, Oliver Cromwell
Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Studies in
Comparative World History). West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the
Renaissance to the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Stock Market Crash History. “The Tulip Bulb Mania” <http://www.stock-market-crash.net/tulipmania.htm>
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization: Since 1500
From the Renaissance Civilization through the Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill,
1992.
UNIT 5: THE 18TH CENTURY: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION,
ENLIGHTENMENT, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY – SUPPLEMENTAL
MATERIALS
Excerpts from Rene Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Immanuel Kant, Denis Diderot,
Jean Jacques Rouseeau, Mary Wolstonecraft, Sir Francis Bacon, William Harvey,
Baron de Montesquieu, Cesare Becarria, Joseph II, Catherine II, Frederick the Great,
Adam Smith, Nicholas Copernicus, Thomas Paine, Baron d’Holbach, Voltaire
Advanced Placement European History I (Center for Learning, 1988) Lesson 20, “The Scientific
Revolution: The Search for Meaning”; Lesson 21, The Enlightenment: The Best of All
Possible Worlds”; Lesson 22, “The Global Economy: The Marriage of Politics and
Economy”
Black, Linda. AP World History Teaching Unit D1: The Economic Role of Women in World
History, 600 – 1914.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to
the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization: Since 1500 From
Renaissance Civilization through the Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
UNIT 6: FRENCH REVOLUTION/AGE OF NAPOLEON – SUPPLEMENTAL
MATERIALS
Excerpts from Abbey Sieyes, Olympe de Gouges, Edmund Burke, Maximillian Robespierre,
Napoleon letters/journals
Advanced Placement European History I (Center for Learning, 1988) Lesson 26, “The French
Revolution: Changing Images of the King”; Lesson 27: “The French Revolution: Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity”; Lesson 28: “Napoleon: Giant or Midget?”
Reese, Lyn. I Will Not Bow My Head: Documenting Women’s Political Resistance in World
History. Berkeley: Women in World History Curriculum, 1995.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to
the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization:
Since 1500
From Renaissance Civilization through The Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
UNIT 7: INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND REVOLUTION
Excerpts from Giuseppe Mazzini, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Karl
Marx, Friedrich Engels, Emmeline Pankhurst, Charles Dickens
Migration CD-ROM, Unit 7, Migration and Identity; Unit 6, Forced Migration; Unit 8, Global
Economy, Regional Migrations.
Reese, Lyn. I Will Not Bow My Head: Documenting Women’s Political Resistance in World
History. Berkeley: Women in World History Curriculum, 1995.
UNIT 8: MASS POLITICS, UNIFICATION, AND IMPERIALISM
Excerpts from Giuseppe Mazzini, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Spencer, Otto von Bismarck, Pope
Pius IX, Adam Hochschild
CollegeBoard. AP World History Best Practices. 2002. Lesson E: “Legacies of British Rule in
India”.
Mintz, Sidney . Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. NY: Penguin,
1986.
Perry, M., Peden, J. & VonLaue, T. Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to
the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Queen Victoria’s Empire. Paul Burgess, Dir. PBS, 2006.
Tierney, B., Kagan, D., & Williams, L.P. Great Issues in Western Civilization: Since 1500 From
Renaissance Civilization through the Cold War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
UNIT 9: WORLD WAR I AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Excerpts from Erich Maria Remarque, Alexander II, Theodore Herzl, Woodrow
Wilson, Barbara Tuckman, Wilfred Owen, Evelyn Blucher
Chapman, Anne. Women at the Heart of War. Los Angeles: National Center for History in the
Schools, 1997.
World History Unfolding:The Great War: 1914 – 1918 ((MindSparks). Fort Atkinson, WI:
Highsmith, Inc., 2001.
World History Unfolding: Russia’s Revolution and the World.((MindSparks). Fort Atkinson, WI:
Highsmith, Inc., 2001.
UNIT 10: THE INTER-WAR YEARS
Excerpts from Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell,
Jose Ortega y Gasset,
Chapman, Anne. Women at the Heart of War. Los Angeles: National Center for History in the
Schools, 1997.
Reese, Lyn. I Will Not Bow My Head: Documenting Women’s Political Resistance in World
History. Berkeley: Women in World History Curriculum, 1995.
UNIT 11: WORLD WAR II AND THE RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS
Excerpts from The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Balfour Declaration, , V.I. Lenin, Joseph
Stalin, Benito Mussollini, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Hauser, Elie Weisel
Sperry, Chris. Soviet History Through Posters: A Visual Media Literacy Kit. Ithaca, NY: Project
Look Sharp, Ithaca College, 2007.
The Way We Saw It: The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. (MindSparks). Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith,
Inc., 2001.
The Way We Saw It: Images of Hate: Visual Propaganda Under Hitler and Stalin ((MindSparks).
Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith, Inc., 2001.
UNIT 12: 1945 - PRESENT
Excerpts from Mikhail Gorbachev, Valav Havel, Boris Yeltzin, Simone de Beauvoir, Dag
Hammarskjold
The Modern World: The Cold War Across the World. Performance Education.
The Way We Saw It: The Origins of the Cold War. (MindSparks). Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith, Inc.
1998.