AP European History (1450-1990)

Course Topics Outline

I. Introduction to the Course

A. What is History?

B. Medieval Background ch. 9 pp. 308-330

1. feudal society: origins and consequences

2. fourteenth century disasters

3. Hundreds Years War

4. Babylonian Captivity of the Church

II. Renaissance and Reformation (1450-1648) ch. 10

A. Italian Renaissance pp. 332-348

1. Arts and Literature

2. Humanism

B. Northern Renaissance pp. 353-55

1. The new piety

2. Humanism and Christianity

C. The Age of Exploration and the Commercial Revolution pp. 356-66

1. Opening of the Atlantic

2. Economic effects of new world discoveries

3. Innovations in printing, warfare and government

D. The Development of the State pp. 350- 53

1. Territorial consolidation

2. Taxation

3. Church and State

E. Reformation ch. 11

1. Luther pp. 368-81

2. Other Protestant Leaders pp. 381-87

3. English Reformation pp. 389-93

4. Catholic Counter-Reformation pp. 393-96

5. Social Significance of the Reformation pp. 398-405

F. Religious Wars ch. 12

1. French Civil Wars pp. 414-424

2. Imperial Spain pp. 425-427

4. Thirty Years War pp. 438-445

III. The Age of Reason (1648-1789)

A. English Revolutions and Parliamentary Rule ch. 13 pp. 448-61

1. The Puritan Revolution

2. Restoration and The Glorious Revolution

B. Absolutism ch. 13 pp. 463-475

1. The Age of Louis XIV

2. The Rise of Prussia and Austria

3. Peter the Great and the Rise of Russia

C. The Scientific Revolution ch. 14 pp. 480-88

D. The Enlightenment ch. 18

1. Philosophers pp. 608-23

2. Rulers pp. 627-37

3. Social and Political Events ch. 17 pp. 579-592

IV. The Age of Revolutions (1789-1848)

A. The French Revolution ch. 19 pp. 640-79

B. The Age of Napoleon ch. 20 pp. 682-700

C. The Industrial revolution ch. 16 pp. 561-574

D. Nineteenth Century Ism’s

1. Romanticism ch. 20 pp. 702-18

2. Liberalism and Nationalism ch. 21 pp. 720-37

3. Socialism and Marxism ch.22 pp. 760-93

V. Age of Imperialism (1848-1914)

A. Unification of Italy and Germany ch. 23 pp.800-11

B. Russia and Eastern Europe ch. 23 pp.823-25

C. Imperialism in Asia and Africa ch. 26 pp. 910-25

V. The Age of Total War (1914-1945)

A. World War I ch. 26 pp. 927-950

B. The Russian Revolution ch. 26 pp. 939-42

C. Fascism, Nazism and the Inter-war Years ch. 28 pp. 996-1023

D. World War II ch. 29 pp. 1032-1068

VI. The Cold War and Beyond (1945- 1999) ch. 30 pp. 1070-1114

A. Bipolar politics

B. Trends in European Society