AP European History

20节课  $55/1hr

Course focus

In AP European History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from approximately 1450 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides different themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction of Europe and the world, economic and commercial development, cultural and intellectual development, states and other institutions of power, social organization and development, national and European identity, and technological and scientific innovations.

Course Content 

Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration

You’ll explore the rapid changes sparked in the Renaissance and trace their legacy through colonialism and a commercial revolution that changed the shape of European society.

Unit 2: Age of Reformation

You’ll chart the evolving strains of Christianity in Europe and the far-reaching effects of the Reformation on daily and political life.

Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism

You’ll study developments in political power and how they affected the relationships among states and between states and individuals. You’ll also learn about the social, political, and cultural conditions resulting from economic developments in Europe.

Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments

You’ll study how scientific thinking and new strains of political thought combined with technological advances transformed much of 18th-century life in Europe.

Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century

You’ll chart England’s increasing role in European matters and the reverberations of the French Revolution across Europe.

Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects

You’ll learn about the transformational effects of the Industrial Revolution, technology, and urbanization on European society and political thought.

Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments

You’ll explore how the political forces of nationalism and shifting alliances set the stage for World War I.

Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts

You’ll learn about the great upheavals of the 20th century, as well as cultural developments and changing political structures.

Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe

You’ll study how competing ideologies and global superpowers came to define much of the latter half of the 20th century.

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