AP European History
Month
Content
Skills
Assessment
• Describe & analyze the
causes of the 100 Years
War.
• Correlate the impact of
the Black Death.
• Analyze the relations
between the church and
state.
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Renaissance & Discovery
• Examine the emergence
of the nation-states.
• Describe & analyze the
Renaissance.
• Analyze the reforms of
Martin Luther.
• Analyze the English
Reformation.
• Formulation of the social
significance of the
Reformation
• Assess the extension of
the political conflict of the
Reformation.
• Discuss the impact of the
Spanish Amada.
• Analyze the Anglican
Church’s impact.
• Compare the
developmental difference
between England &
France.
• Analyze Oliver Cromwell.
• Understand Absolutism.
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
September
• Late Middle Ages
• Reformation
October
• Age of Religious Wars
• Paths of Constitutionalism
& Absolutism: England &
France – 1600’s
Curriculum Map
2003
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
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AP European History
October
(continued)
Month
Content
Skills
• New Directions in Thought
& Culture in the Sixteenth &
Seventeenth Centuries
(Science & Philosophy
• Analyze the scientific
revolution.
• Compare the revolution’s
impact on society & the
church.
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Successful &
Unsuccessful Paths to
Power – 1686-1740
• Distinguish the political
centralization of power.
• Understand the
supremacy of parliament in
England.
• Compare & contrast the
family structure &
economy.
• Analyze the agricultural &
industrial revolutions.
• Analyze the impact on the
aristocracy.
• Understand mercantilism.
• Discuss the impact of the
American Revolution.
• Describe the impact of
the African slave trade.
• Compare & contrast the
ideas of the philosophies of
the period.
• Analyze the impact of the
Enlightenment on religion.
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
November
• Old Regime & The Early
Industrial Revolution
• Empire, War, & Colonial
Rebellion
• Age of The Enlightenment
Curriculum Map
2003
Assessment
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
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AP European History
December
Month
Content
• The French Revolution
• Age of Napoleon & the
Triumph of Romanticism
January
• Restoration, Reaction, &
Reform (1815-1832)
• Economic Advance &
Social Unrest
• The Age of Nation-States
• Nation building in Italy,
Germany, & Russia
Curriculum Map
2003
Skills
• Describe the chronology
of the Revolution.
• Compare the
revolutionary political
factions.
• Analyze the life of
Napoleon.
• Discuss the impact of the
Congress of Vienna.
• Describe the Romantic
Movement.
• Understand Liberalism.
• Analyze the rise of
political power of the
middle class.
• Discuss the emergence of
a global economy.
• Understand the socialist
movement.
• Examine Marxism.
• Describe the Revolution
of 1848.
• Compare the unification
of Germany & Italy.
• Understand the impact of
the Dreyfus Affair.
• Analyze the major
political trends.
Assessment
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
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Essential Questions
AP European History
February
January
(continued)
Month
Content
• The Building of European
Supremacy: Society &
Politics of World War I
• The Birth Modern
European Thought
• Imperialism, Alliances, &
World War I
• Political Experiments of
the 1920’s
March
• Europe & the Great
Depression of the 1930’s
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2003
Skills
• Analyze the 2nd Industrial
Revolution.
• Discuss the social
position of women.
• Compare labor & socialist
organizations.
• Analyze Darwin’s Theory.
• Compare Nietzsche &
Freud.
• Discuss women &
modern thought.
• Describe New
Imperialism.
• Analyze the weapons of
WWI.
• Analyze the Treaty of
Versailles.
• Discuss the European
problems after the war.
• Analyze the failure of the
Weimar Republic.
• Understand the Fascist
rise in Italy.
• Describe the causes of
the depression.
• Analyze the Nazi rise in
Germany.
• Understand the impact of
women in Nazi Germany.
Assessment
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
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Essential Questions
AP European History
Month
Content
March
(continued)
• World War II
• Europe & the SovietAmerican Rivalry
April
• Toward a New Europe &
the Twenty-first Century
• Prepare & review for AP
European History exam
Curriculum Map
2003
Skills
• Discuss the causes of the
war.
• Analyze the Nazi
treatment of subject
people.
• Interpret the use of the
Atomic Bomb.
• Understand the reasons
for decolonization.
• Analyze US-Soviet
relations.
• Discuss the European
Union.
• Compare global
democratization.
• Describe the modern links
with the past.
• Analyze the state of mind
in the 20th Century.
• Compare the modern
church with the past.
• Analyze the collapse of
the Soviet Union & its
impact.
Assessment
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
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Essential Questions
AP European History
Month
Content
May
• Review for AP European
History exam
• Non-European areas of
the modern world
June
• Prepare for NYS Regents
Exam
Curriculum Map
2003
Skills
• Identify facts of European
History.
• Analyze & assess
documents.
• Define, describe, &
distinguish global themes.
• Identify facts of nonEuropean History.
• Analyze & assess
documents.
• Define, describe, &
distinguish global themes.
• Identify facts of Global
History.
• Analyze & assess
documents.
• Define, describe, &
distinguish global themes.
Assessment
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• Quiz
• Test: multiple choice
• DBQ
• Free response question
• NYS Regents Exam
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Essential Questions