Advanced Placement European History – Arlington High School – Camelio
Month
September
Content
• Late Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Reformation
Essential Questions
• How did the Middle Ages help create the Renaissance?
• What role did individuals play in shaping the Italian and
Northern Renaissance?
• How did the role of the Church change from the Middle
Ages to the Renaissance and Reformation?
• What is the legacy of the Reformation?
Documents/Text
▪ Machiavelli, The
Prince
▪ Erasmus, In Praise of
Folly selection
▪ Chapters 9, 10, 11
Activities
• Luther/Calvin Document
Packet
• Renaissance and Mannerist Art
PowerPoint
• Video: Luther and the
Protestant Revolt
October
• French Wars of
Religion
• Absolutism &
Constitutionalism
• Scientific
Revolution
• “ The Court of Louis
XIV” worksheet
▪ Letters of Galileo and
Kepler
▪ Chapters 12, 13, 14
• English Timeline
▪ Songs of 17th Century England
• Treaty of Utrecht Point of
View Activity
November
• Growth of
Empires
• Rise of the World
Economy
▪ 18th Century
Society
• Enlightenment
• French
Revolution
• Age of Napoleon
• How is religion both a unifying and divisive force?
• What are the merits and drawbacks of absolutism and
constitutionalism?
• Why and how did 15th-century England embody
constitutionalism while France embodied absolutism?
• What impact did new scientific discoveries have on
European worldview?
• How can we account for the rise and fall of certain
European empires?
• What impact did expansion of trade and exploration
have on European nations?
• How did the rise of the world economy and new
scientific discoveries affect the European worldview?
• How did the Enlightenment encourage people to think
rationally and question traditional authority?
• How did the French Revolution make the ideals of the
Enlightenment a reality?
• What conditions in France caused revolution?
• How did Napoleon both contradict and continue the
ideas of the French Revolution and Enlightenment?
• What conditions influenced the rise of romanticism?
▪ How did new technology, urbanization, and workers’
movements affect the human condition?
• How do political events influence art and literature?
• How did the Industrial Revolution influence new
political and economic theory?
▪ How did the development of socialism impact Europe
politically and socially?
▪ 18th century paintings
and writings
▪ Chapters 15, 16, 17
▪ “Silent Conversation” Activity:
18th Century Society
• Philosophes’ Excerpts
• “Declaration of the
Rights of Man and
Citizen”
• Abbe Sieyes, “What is
the Third Estate?”
▪ Chapters 18, 19, 20
• Marx, Communist
Manifesto excerpts
• Smith, Wealth of
Nations excerpts
▪ Chapters 20, 21, 22
• Enlightenment speeches
▪ Napoleonic Art and
Propaganda PowerPoint
▪ “Was Napoleon a child or
betrayer of the French
Revolution?” Socratic Seminar
December
January
• Romanticism and
Conservatism
▪ Industrial
Revolution
• Age of
Revolutions
▪ Economic
Theories
• Analysis of Romantic art and
literature
• Group Newspaper Projects on
European Revolutions of 1820s
and 1830s
February
• Nationalism
• Late 19th Century
Society and
Politics
March
• Imperialism
• WWI and
Russian Revolution
• Great Depression
• Totalitarian
Regimes
April
• World War II
• The Cold War
• Post-Cold War
Europe
May
• AP Review
• Modern Issues in
European History
• Seniors Final
Exam
• Current Issues in
Europe
• Juniors Final
Exam
June
• How did the concept of nationalism develop and what
were its effects?
• How did nationalism influence German and Italian
unification?
▪ Why did England emerge as a democratic welfare state?
• How should politics react to changes in society and
industry?
▪ How did emerging scientific theories impact politics
and society in late 19th-century Europe?
• How did European nationalism set the stage for WWI?
• How did European nations justify global imperialism?
• How did new technology and methods of warfare
influence WWI on the Western Front?
• What were the causes of the Russian Revolution and
how did it influence WWI on the Eastern Front?
• How did circumstances in post-WWI Europe encourage
the rise of totalitarian regimes?
• How did the Treaty of Versailles fail to create
sustainable peace in Europe?
• How did the attitude towards acceptable war practices
change over the course of the 20th century?
• How did the outcome of WWII change the balance of
power in the world?
• What conditions turn former allies into enemies?
▪ Why did communism break down in Europe?
• Bismarck, “Blood and
Iron”
• Mazzini, “Duties of
Man”
▪ Irish Potato Famine
Documents
▪ Bonnie Anderson, A
History of Their Own
▪ Chapters 23, 24, 25
• Potato Famine Documents
Discussion
▪ Video: Bismarck – Germany
From Blood and Iron
▪ Modern and Victorian Art
PowerPoint
• Zimmermann
Telegram
• Fourteen Points
• Speeches of Hitler and
Stalin
▪ Chapters 26, 27, 28
• Russian Revolution Newscasts
• Fourteen Points Simulation
• Compare/Contrast Organizer:
Hitler and Stalin
• Propaganda Posters
• Riefenstahl, “Triumph
of the Will”
▪ “Europa, Europa” clip
• Churchill, “Iron
Curtain”
▪ Chapters 29, 30, 31
• WWII Timeline
• Cold War Country Case
Studies
▪ Panel Presentations: 20th
Century Social Experiences
• How do decisions and actions of the post-WWII era
bring human rights ideals to fruition?
• Thematic Review for AP Exam
• Identify Significant Dates and
Individuals in European History
• Practice Exam
• What issues dominate European life in the 21st century?
• Most Influential Projects
▪ History Footprint Projects