Essential Understandings

• European boundaries change reflecting national identities
• European social structure has moved from a feudal social structure to one dominated by the middle class.
• European political structure has moved from a feudal hierarchy to a series of middle class dominated democracies.
• Europe has moved from a religious society to a more secular society with religious overtones.
• European intellectuality moved from religious based (scholasticism) to a philosophy in which religious and materialistic philosophy coincide, compliment, and disagree.
• Europe has developed over a series of technological revolutions which drove internal politics and has had international implications.
• European economics has developed from manorial to a capitalistic society in with socialist values dominate.

Essential Skills

• Reading a college level text
• Discuss historical content with relevant support and unique insights.
• Write DBQ and FRQ using a rubric to show skills and abilities, specifically: analyzing bias, analytical thesis, appropriate support and interpretation of documents and historical support.
• Use vocabulary appropriate to content and time period, example dictator vs despot.

AP Euro

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Reading

Textbook

Prelude to the Modern World

Various primary sources

Textbook

Various primary sources

Textbook

Various primary sources

Textbook

Various primary sources

Writing

DBQ: Black Plague, Reformation

DBQ:  

Discussion

Vocabulary

secular, laity, nepotism, excommunication, benefic, temporal, manorial, feudal, interdict, taille, condotierri, podesta, Renaissance, chiaroscuro, new monarch, Cortes, Chattel slavery, humanism, grandi, popolo grosso, popolo minuto, middle burgher, civic humanism, gabelle, reichstag, conquistadore, peninsulares, rempartimento, quinto, encomiendo, eucharist (communion), consubstantiation, transubstantiation, Inquisition, republic, simony, pluralism, absenteeism, theocracy, reformation, ecclessiastical,  vernacular, asiento, whig, tory, presbyter v. episcopal v. independent, malefecium, sabbath,magic, absolutism, constitutionalism, geocentric v heliocentric model, deductive v inductive, maritime, stadtholder, hacienda

parlements, boyar, sejm, zimmi, seasoning, liberum veto, magyar, junker, boyar, millet, cabinet v. Kabinet, hoboreaux, corvee, higglers, banalities, robot, vingtieme szlachta, coitus interruptus, cift, crop rotation, selective breeding, fallow, open v closed field, enlightenment, white v red terror, bourgeoisie, active v passive citizen, nationalism, romanticism, conservatism, liberalism, republicanism, transformissimo,

impressionism, socialism, proletariat, glasnost, perestroika, democritization,

a. Old Regime

b. Parlements

c.  Jacque Necker

d.  Estates General

e.  Tennis Court Oath

ab.  Women’s March to Versailles

ac.Society of Revolutionary Republican Women

ad. Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

ae.  Passive Citizen

bc. Civil Constitution of the Clergy

bd.  Declaration of Pillnitz

be.  The Holy Roman Empire

cd.  Committee of Public Safety

ce.  Declaration of the Rights of Women

de.  Latin America

a.  Holy Roman Empire

b.  Constitution of Year VIII

c.  Constitution of 1791

d.  active citizen

e.  Reign of Terror

ab.  Treaty of Tilsit

ac.  Continental System

ad.  Marie Louise

ae.  White Terror

bc.  St. Helena

bd.  The Hundred Days

be.  Liberalism

cd.  Nationalism

ce.  Organic Articles

de.  Marie Louise

ab.  Concordat of 1801

ac.  The National Guard

ad.  The Swiss Guard

ae.  Peninsular Campaign

ab.  Goya

ac. Jacques Louis David

ad.  Josephine

ae.  Waterloo

bc.  The Commune