AP European History Syllabus
Textbook - Spielvogel, Jackson, Western Civilization, Thompson Wadsworth, 2006. 6th Ed.
Supplementary Texts:
Sherman, Dennis, Western Civilization-Sources, Images, and Interpretations: From The Renaissance to the Present, McGraw-Hill, 4th Ed.
Viault, Birdsall S., Modern European History, McGraw-Hill, 1990
Hitchcock William I. The Struggle For Europe, Doubleday, 2002.
Heilbroner, Robert L., The Worldly Philosophers, Simon & Schuster, 1999
Web Site:
•The Black Death and Its Impact on Society
oSpielvogel, 283 -290
oHandout-Black Death
•The Hundred Year’s War and Its Aftermath
oSpielvogel, 291 - 299
•Turmoil In the Church and Social Change
oSpielvogel, 300 - 310
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oHandout-Life and Death in the Middle Ages
•Source Materials
oViault, Chapter 1
oMap - Geographical Backgrounds of European History
•Birth of the Renaissance in Italy
oSpielvogel, 313 - 320
•Politics in Renaissance Italy
oSpielvogel, 320 - 324
•The Artistic Renaissance
oSpielvogel, 324 - 336
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oHandout-Michelangelo & Neoplatonism
•New Monarchies and the Renaissance Papacy
oSpielvogel, 337 - 343
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 1, The Renaissance
oViault, Chapter 2
•Audio Visual Sources
oArt of the Western World - The Early Renaissance
oArt of the Western World - The Late Renaissance
oFlorence with Bill Moyers
oMachiavelli on Political Power
•The Impact of Northern Renaissance Humanism
oSpielvogel, 346 - 356
•Martin Luther and the Spread of Protestantism
oSpielvogel, 357 - 363
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•Social Impacts of the Protestant Reformation/Wars of Religion
oSpielvogel, 363 - 376
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 2, The Reformation
oMap - Reformation
•AudioVisual Sources
oThe Protestant Reformation
oHoly Roman Empire and Protestantism
•The Portuguese and Spanish Empires
oSpielvogel, 379 - 390
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•Europe’s Impact on the World
oSpielvogel, 390 - 407
oHandout-English Coffee Houses
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 3, Overseas Expansion and New Politics
oViault, Chapters 5, 6
oMap - Europe in 1648
oMap - Expansion of Europe
•Audio Visual Resources
oCotez and Montezuma
The Rise of Absolute Monarchies
•Wars and the Rise of Absolute Monarchy
oSpielvogel, 410 - 425
•Abslutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe
oSpielvogel, 425 - 432
•Alternatives to Absolutism
oSpielvogel, 433 - 440
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oHandout-Death of Charles II
oHandout-Gunpowder Plot
•Art and Culture in an Age of Absolutism
oSpielvogel, 440 - 446
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapters 4 & 5
oViault, Chapters 7, 8, 9
oMap - Russia and Peter the Great
oMap - France and Louis XIV
oMap - The Atlantic World
•Audio Visual Sources
oArt of the Western World - The Baroque
oPeter The Great
•Web Resources
The Scientific Revolution
•The Heavenly Revolution
oSpielvogel, 448 - 460
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•The Impact of Science on Women, Logic, and Religion
oSpielvogel, 461 - 470
•Audio Visual Resources
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Science Revises the Heavens
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 6
oViault, chapter 11
•Web Resources
•The Rise of The Enlightenment
oSpielvogel, 473 - 485
oHandout-Rousseau & Locke
•Society, Culture, Religion and the Enlightenment
oSpielvogel, 485 - 499
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapters 7 & 8
oViault, Chapters 12, 13
•Audio Visual Sources
oThe Enlightenment, pt. 1
•Web Resources
18th Century Wars and Their Consequences
•The European States
oSpielvogel, 502 - 514
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•Wars and Their Impact
oSpielvogel, 514 - 523
•Society in the 18th Century
oSpielvogel, 524 - 530
•Source Materials
oViault, Chapter 10
The French Revolution and Napoleon
•The Significance of the American Revolution on Europe
oSpielvogel, 532 - 538
•The French Revolution
oSpielvogel, 538 - 552
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•The Age of Napoleon
oSpielvogel, 552 - 559
oHandout-Napoleonic Catechism
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapters 9 &10
oViault, chapters 14, 15
oMap - French Revolution
•Audio Visual Sources
oBiography: Great Commanders - Napoleon
oBurke and Paine on Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
•Britain leads the Way
oSpielvogel, 562 -575
•The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
oSpielvogel, 576 - 587
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 11
oHeilbroner, intro, Smith, Malthus & Ricardo
oViault, Chapter 20
•Audio Visual Sources
oDay the Universe Changed: Factory & Marketplace Revolution
oConnections 2: Revolutions
•Conservatism
oSpielvogel, 589 - 598
•The ISMs and Their Impact
oSpielvogel, 598 - 610
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•Reaction
oSpielvogel, 610 - 618
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 12
oHeilbroner, Visions of Utopian Socialists
oViault, chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22
oMap - Europe and the Congress of Vienna
•Audio Visual Sources
oArt of the Western World: The Enlightenment, pt 2
oConnections 2: New Harmony
•Nationalism in France, Italy, and Germany
oSpielvogel, 620 - 631
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•Nationalism in Central Europe, Britain, and the USA
oSpielvogel, 631 - 638
•Marxism and Culture
oSpielvogel,638 - 649
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oHandout-Hegel on History
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 13 (some)
oBismarck, Mazzini, Proclamation of Paris Commune, Grew, Holborn
oHeilbroner, Karl Marx
oMap - Italian Unificaiton
oMap - German Unification
•Audio Visual Sources
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Fit to Rule
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
Society in the Late 19th Century
•A Second Industrial Revolution
oSpielvogel, 651 - 660
•The Emergence of a Mass Society
oSpielvogel, 660 - 673
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•East vs West
oSpielvogel, 673 - 678
•Source Materials
oHeilbroner, Victorian World, Thorstein Veblen
oViault, Chapter 26
•Audio Visual Sources
oThe Paris Commune, 1871
•Science, Culture, and the Arts
oSpielvogel, 681 - 692
•Tensions and Upheaval
oSpielvogel, 692 - 701
•Imperialism
oSpielvogel, 701 - 714
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 13 (remainder) & Chapter 14
oSeaman, Imperial Conflicts and European Alignments 1875-1907
oViault, Chapter 27
oMap - Imperialism
•Audio Visual Sources
oArt of the Western World - Impressionism
oThe World: Industry and Empire
oGreat War: Explosion
oLa Belle Epoque: 1890-1914
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Darwin’s Revolution
oFreud: The Hidden Nature of Man
World War I and the Russian Revolution
•World War I
oSpielvogel, 717 - 736
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•The Russian Revolution and Versailles
oSpielvogel, 736 - 747
•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 15
oViault, Chapters 28, 29, 30
oMap - Europe in 1914
oMap - Europe After the Treaty of Versailles
•Audio Visual Sources
oThe Great War (parts)
oArt of the Western World - Into the 20th Century
•The Great Depression and Its Impact
oSpielvogel, 750 - 758
•The Rise of Totalitarianism
oSpielvogel, 758 - 780
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•Source Materials
oSherman, Chapter 16 & 17
oHeilbroner, John Maynard Keynes
oViault, Chapters 31, 32, 33
•Audio Visual Sources
oGreat Leaders of the 20th Century: Adenauer
oBiography: Mussolini
oBiography: Stalin
oThe Century, pt 2: Hitler’s Rise to Power
•World War II
oSpielvogel, 782 - 796
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•Impact of the War on Europe and the World
oSpielvogel, 797 - 812
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•Audio Visual Sources
oWorld War II
oSource Materials
oHitchcock, Aftermath
oViault, Chapters 34, 35
oMap - Post World War II Europe
•Decolonization
oSpielvogel, 814 - 827
•Affects of the Cold War on Europe and the USA
oSpielvogel,828 -848
•Source Materials
oHitchcock, Boom
oSherman, Chapter 18
oViault, chapter 36, 39
oMap - Europe in 1993
•Audio Visual Sources
oThe Berlin Airlift
oUS-Soviet Relations: The End of the Cold War
oBerlin Connection: One Nation Undivided
•The End of the Cold War
oSpielvogel, 850 - 867
•After the Cold War...?
oSpielvogel, 867 - 883
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•Source Materials
oHitchcock, Rebels and Unity
oSherman, Chapter 19
oViault, Chapters 37, 38, 40
•Audio Visual Sources
oEastern Europe: The Curtain Rises
oThe Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
oEconomics in the 90’s: Interdependence Among Nations
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Worlds Without End
oThe Day the Universe Changed: Changing Knowledge/Changing Reality
oExtraordinary Partners: The EU and the USA