AP EUROPEAN HISTORY CHECKLIST
DO YOU KNOW……..?
Below is a list of people, places, and events that are associated with European history. Use this list to track your
knowledge of the important specifics of AP European history. This list is a guide to help you study. It is not intended to
be the only information that you retain from a unit. These terms will be an asset for you when answering essay and
multiple choice questions.
Introduction
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Plato
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Jesus
Mohammad
Constantine
Charlemagne
Treaty of Verdun
William of Normandy
Battle of Hastings
Hundred Years’ War
Black Death (bubonic plague)
Great Schism
Council of Constance
Conciliar Movement
Scholasticism
Doomsday Book
Magna Carta
Crusades
Boccaccio
Edward III
Henry V
Charles VII
Joan of Arc
John XXII
John Wycliffe
John Huss
Clement VII
Yaroslav the Wise
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Humanism
Christian humanism
Vernacular
New Monarchs
1450-1648
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Taille
Reconquista
Indulgence
Anabaptist
Predestination
Huguenots
Politiques
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Putting-Out System
Joint-stock Company
Rise of Italian City-States
Florence and the Medici
Celebration of the Individual
Baldassare Castiglione
Machiavelli
Leon Battista Alberti
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolaus Copernicus
Christine de Pizan
Isabella d’Este
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Michel de Montaighe
William Shakespeare
Johannes Gutenberg
Cosimo de Medici
Henry VII
Ferdinand and Isabella
Martin Luther
Ninety-five Theses
German Peasants’ War
Peace of Augsburg
Frederick the Wise
Charles V
Ulrich Zwingli
Michael Serventus
John Calvin
Henry VIII
John Knox
Council of Trent
Jesuits
Ignatius of Loyola
Baroque art
Dutch Wars of Independence
Catherine de Medicis
Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Henry of Navarre
Edict of Nantes
Philip II
William of Orange
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Mary I
Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Thirty Years ‘ War
Peace of Westphalia
Ferdinand II
Albrecht of Wallenstein
Gustavus Adolphus
James I
Petition of Right
Long Parliament
English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Commercial Revolution
Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
1648 – 1815
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Absolutism
Divine Right of Kings
Intendants
Fronde
Robot
Junkers
Scientific Method
Philosophes
Deism
Enlightened Despot
Enclosure Movement
Agricultural Revolution
Physiocrats
Invisible Hand
Interregnum
Charles II
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Isaac Newton
Louis XIV
John Baptiste Colbert
War of Spanish Succession
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Treaty of Utrecht
Holy Roman Empire
Partition of Poland
Charles VI and Pragmatic Sanction
Rise of Hohenzollerns
Peter the Great
Boyars
Great Northern War
Charles XII
Isaac Newton
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
Robert Walpole
War of Austrian Succession
Diplomatic Revolution
Seven Years’ War
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Catherine the Great
Frederick the Great
Joseph II
Scientific Revolution
Witchcraft
Old Regime
Estates General
Tennis court Oath
National Assembly
Parlements
Girondins
Jacobins
Sans-culottes
Levee en Masse
Thermidorian Reaction
Bastille
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Women’s March to Versailles
Execution of Louis XIV
Reign of Terror
Thermidorian Reaction
The Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Code
Concordat of 1801
Continental System
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Alexander I
Battle of Waterloo
Congress of Vienna
Edmund Burke
1815 – 1914
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Legitimacy
Balance of Power
Conservatism
Nationalism
Romanticism
Chartism
Zollverein
Carbonari
Luddites
Utilitarianism
Utopian Socialism
Marxism
Second Industrial Revolution
Social Darwinism
Realpolitik
Syndicalism
Autocracy
Duma
Imperialism
Sphere of Influence
Prince Klemens van Metternich
Congress System
William Wordsworth
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sir Walter Scott
Victor Hugo
Brothers Grimm
Eugene Delacroix
J.M.W Turner
Francisco Goya
Reform Bill of 1832
Revolutions of 1830
Revolutions of 1848
James Watt
Second Industrial Revolution
Thomas Malthus
David Riccardo
Napoleon III
Crimean War
Emancipation of serfs
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Zemstvos
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Camillo di Cavour
Unification of Italy
Unification of Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Franco-Prussian War
Dual Monarchy
Berlin Conference
Impressionism
Olympia de gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Stuart Mill
Paris Commune
Dreyfus Affair
Irish Question
Kaiser Wilhelm
Revolution of 1905
Herbert Spencer
Cubism
Old Imperialism
New Imperialism
Scramble for Africa
Triple Entente
Powder Keg
Franz Ferdinand
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
1914- Present
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Fourteen Points
Bolsheviks
New Economic Policy
Existentialism
Relativity
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Kulaks
Keynesian Economics
Appeasement
Containment
Decolonization
De-Stalinization
Brezhnev Doctrine
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Détente
Solidarity
Glasnost
Perestroika
Welfare State
The Schlieffen Plan
Nicholas II
Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Surrealism
Bauhaus Movement
Weimar Republic
Reparations
Dawes Plan
Locarno Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Five-Year Plans
Benito Mussolini
Corporate Economy
Lateran Accord
Adolf Hitler
Anti-semitism
Nuremberg Laws
Spanish Civil War
Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Holocaust
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of rome
Berlin Airlft
Economic Integration
Common Market
Maastricht Treaty
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Christian Democrates
Charles de Gaulle
Nikita Khrushchev
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring
Stagnation
Détente
Mikhail Gorbachev
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
John Paul II