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AP European History

Castle Learning Online's AP European History contains hundreds of 5-choice multiple choice questions. Features extensive use of political cartoons, maps, charts, quotations, and other documents. Detailed vocabulary definitions, hints, and reasons. A great study and review tool in preparation for advanced placement exams!

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Formation of Europe
Sections:
1. The Church and the Barbarians to 800
2. Early Middle Ages to 800 A.D.
3. Viking Incursions and Feudalism: 900 A.D.
4. Crusades and Kings
5. High Middle Ages
6. Towns, Trade and Universities
European Society and the Renaissance
Sections:
1. The Renaissance in Italy
2. The Renaissance outside Italy
3. Philosophy: Humanism, Individualiism and Secularism
4. Art and Artists during the Renaissance
5. Social Change
6. Political Change
The Reformation
Sections:
1. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
2. Other Reformers
3. The Catholic Counter-Reformation
The Age of Exploration, Discovery and Religious Wars
Sections:
1. Europeans Open the Americas
2. Europeans in Asia and Africa
3. Political and Religious Events & Wars
4. Social and Cultural Accomplishments
Absolutism and Constitutionalism: 1589-1715
Sections:
1. France
2. Spain
3. England
4. The Dutch Republic
Absolutism in Eastern Europe
Sections:
1. Austria
2. Prussia
3. Russia and Eastern Europe
New Scientific and Philosophical Directions
Sections:
1. The Scientific Revolution
2. The Enlightenment
3. Enlightened Despots
4. Cultural Expressions
European Expansion in the 18th Century
Sections:
1. Agricultural Revolution
2. Population Growth
3. Beginnings of the Textile Industry
4. Colonialism and Mercantilism in North America
5. Colonialism and Mercantilism in Latin America
6. Colonialism and Mercantilism in Africa and Asia
Societal Changes during the 18th Century
Sections:
1. Children and Education
2. Culinary and Medical Practices
3. Religion
European Involvement in the Americas
Sections:
1. Mercantilism and the Growth of the Nation-State
2. The Escalation of Slavery
3. Wars in the New World
4. The American Revolution
5. Independence in Latin America
The French Revolution and its Aftermath: 1789-1815
Sections:
1. Crisis and Revolution
2. Napoleonic France: 1799-1815
The Industrial Revolution: The Initial Phase
Sections:
1. Industial Revolution in England
2. Industial Revolution outside of England
Turmoil Amidst Ideologies: 1815-1850
Sections:
1. Balance of Power
2. Liberalism, Nationalism, Utopian Socialism and Marxism
3. Romanticism in Art, Music and Literature
The Age of Nationalism: 1850-1914
Sections:
1. Napoleon III: Republic to Empire
2. Italian Unification: Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi
3. Germany Before and After Bismarck
4. The United States
5. Austria-Hungary: The Dual Monarchy
6. Russia: Industrialization to Revolution of 1905
7. England
8. France
The Second Industrial Revolution
Sections:
1. Monopolies, Trusts, and Capitalism
2. Urbanization, Immigration, and a Rising Middle Class
3. Marxism, Socialism, and Unionism
4. Western Imperialism, and Responses
The Great War and Revolutions
Sections:
1. Alliances, the Arms Race, and Conflict
2. The Home Front: Social, Political, and Economic Impact
3. The Russian Revolution
4. The End of the War: The Versailles Treaty
5. The Collapse of the German and Austrian Empires
Between the Wars: Democracy and Dictatorship
Sections:
1. Cultural Expression and Modern Thought
2. The Soviet Union Under Stalin
3. Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
4. German Nazism and Hitler
5. The Spanish Civil War
6. Searching For Democratic Collective Security
7. The Great Depression
World War II
Sections:
1. The Nazis and Europe
2. The War Outside Europe
3. Pearl Harbor: The United States Enters the War
4. The Holocaust
5. Yalta & Potsdam: The Question of a New Beginning
Post-World War II and the Cold War
Sections:
1. Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
2. Communist China Emerges
3. From Colonialism to Nationalism in Africa and Asia
4. Technological and Cultural Developments
From 1963 to the Present
Sections:
1. Western Europe
2. The USSR and Eastern Europe
3. The Middle East
4. Latin America and Canada
5. Africa
6. Asia
Interpretation
Sections:
1. Historiography
2. Comparison and Analysis
3. Chronology

Themes:

Political History
Intellectual and Cultural History
Social and Economic History

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