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