Please understand that this study guide is NOT all encompassing.
Please understand that, at least in theory, 20 of the 80 multiple choice questions come from each period listed below.
Please understand that the DBQ could come from anywhere.
Please understand that the 3 questions for FRQ1 will come from Periods 1 and 2.
Please understand that the 3 questions for FRQ2 will come from Periods 3 and 4.
Period 1: 1450-1648 (There are other people/concepts but these are the ones we’ve covered in class)
Black Death
European recovery from loss of population (this SHOULD be all you need to know)
Significant rise in cost of goods and services (known as the price revolution)
Resulting investment leads to capitalism
Italian Renaissance
Petrarch (pre-1450)
Lorenzo Valla
Pico della Mirandola
Greek and Roman Texts and Political Institutions
Machiavelli
Castiglione
Painters and Architects
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Jan Van Eych
Rembrandt
Mannerism and Baroque Artists
Physicians that Challenged Galen
Paracelsus
Vesalius
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Bacon
Descartes
Traditional views of Alchemy and Astrology
Paracelsus
Kepler
Newton
New monarchies laid the foundation for the centralized modern state
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Edict of Nantes (1598)
Peace of Westphalia (1648) marked the end of universal Christendom and accelerated the decline of the Holy Roman Empire by granting princes, bishops, and other local leaders control over religion
Machiavelli’s The Prince
Religion no longer a cause of warfare after Peace of Westphalia (1648); balance of power more important
Advances in Military technology
Spain under Habsburgs
Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus
France (LOL)
English Civil War and competitors for power
James I
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Monarchal challenges by Nobles
Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
The Fronde in France
Religious Pluralism Challenges a Unified Europe
Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
Council of Trent (1545-1563…pro-Catholic)
Catholic Abuses
Indulgences
Nepotism
Pluralism and Absenteeism
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Peace of Augsburg (it keeps showing up—it’s important)
Conflict across the Holy Roman Empire
Counter Reformation (or Catholic Reformation)
St. Teresa of Avila
Roman Inquisition
Index of Prohibited Books
Thirty Years War (1615-1648)
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Calvinism now accepted as a legitimate religion
Protestantism forced acceptance through the Reformation
Increased State Control of Religion and Morality
Spanish Inquisition
Concordat of Bologna (1516)—I’m not sure we studied this but it keeps coming up so I’d figure it out and know it
Peace of Augsburg (again)
Calvinist and Anabaptist rebellion
Religious Conflicts Caused by Challenging Monarchal Control of Religious Institutions
Huguenots
Puritans
Polish Nobles
French Wars of Religion
Catherine de Medici
St. Bartholomew Day’s Massacre
Henry IV
Attempts to Restore Catholic Unity
Charles I/Charles V
Philip II
Philip III
Philip IV
State Exploitation of Religious Conflicts
Catholic Spain
Protestant England
France, Sweden, and Denmark in the Thirty Years War
Period 2: 1648-1815 (There are other people/concepts but these are the ones we’ve covered in class)
Absolute monarchy established over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries
Limited nobility’s participation in governance and preserved aristocracy’s social position and legal privileges
James I
Peter the Great
Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV of Spain
Louis XIV and finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert (God Bless Him!) extended administrative, financial, military, and religious control over the French population
Eastern and Central European absolutism
Frederick II of Prussia
Joseph II of Austria
Polish inability to consolidate its authority over the nobility leading to Polish partition by Prussia, Russia, and Austria and its disappearance from the map of Europe
Peter the Great westernizing the Russian state and society
Catherine the Great continuing the process
Challenges to absolutism leading to alternative political systems
Outcome of English Civil War and Glorious Revolution protecting the rights of the gentry and aristocracy from absolutism through the rights of Parliament
English Bill of Rights
Parliamentary sovereignty
Dutch Republic an oligarchy of urban gentry and rural landholders to promote trade and traditional rights
Dynasties, “The State” and expanding European colonial empires influenced the diplomacy of European states and frequently led to war
Peace of Westphalia leads to Holy Roman Empire restricting sovereignty
Prussia rises to power
Frederick William I of Prussia
Frederick II of Prussia
Habsburgs of Austria shift their empire to the eastward
Maria Theresa of Austria
Ottomans cease westward expansion after loss to Austria at the Battle of Vienna (1683)
Louis XIV’s constant wars (I want it all…)
Dutch War
Nine Years’ War
War of Spanish Succession
Rivalry between Britain and France resulted in world wars (not THE world wars) fought in Europe and their colonies, with Britain > France b/c inevitability
French Revolution posed a fundamental challenge to Europe’s existing political and social order
French Revolution = social causes + political causes + Enlightenment ideas + short-term fiscal and economic crises
First phase: Constitutional monarchy
Increased popular participation in the government
Nationalization of the Catholic Church
Abolishment of hereditary privileges
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Constitution of 1791
Abolition of provinces and division of France into departments
Second phase: After execution of Louis XVI
Radical Jacobins take over
Leader: Robespierre
Key figures: Danton, Marat, Desmoulins (and his aaccid pehn)
Revolutionary armies, raised by mass conscription, seek to bring changes initiated in France to the rest of Europe
Women enthusiastically participate in early phase of revolution
Citizenship still restricted to men only
Touissant L’Ouverture-led slave revolt in Haiti (French colony of Saint Domingue)
Haiti becomes independent in 1804
Debate over theory of equality and human rights vs. reality of violence and complete disregard of traditional authority
Third phase: Directory
Fairly ineffective, somewhat corrupt, moving on…
Fourth phase: Napoleon
Claimed to defend the ideals of the French Revolution while exerting control over much of continental Europe provoking a nationalist reaction
Undertook many reforms
Talent-based careers (not just patronage)
Educational system
Nationalized upper levels
Local control at younger ages
Centralized bureaucracy
Concordat of 1801
Curtailed other rights
Secret police
Censorship
Limitation of women’s rights
Napoleon’s military tactics lead to direct or indirect control over most of Continental Europe, spreading the ideals of the French Revolution
Congress of Vienna leads to restoration of monarchies (Metternich-driven)
Expansion of European commerce accelerated the growth of a worldwide economic network
Market economy
Market Driven wages and prices
Le Chapelier laws
Agricultural Revolution increased productivity and the food supply
Cottage industry (putting-out system) expanded as laborers in homes produce for new markets
New financial practices and institutions
Insurance
Banking private savings into venture capital
New definitions of property rights and protections against confiscation
Bank of England
Mercantilism by exploiting colonies in New World and elsewhere
Slave Labor
Middle Passage
Triangular trade
Plantation economies in the Americas
Overseas products helps develop a consumer culture in Europe
Sugar
Tea
Silks/Fabrics
Tobacco
Rum
Coffee
Goods from America Europe
Raw materials, finished goods, laborers, markets for commercial and industrial European enterprises
Commercial rivalries lead to war
Atlantic influence in 18th century
Portuguese, Dutch, British, and French rivalries in Asia British domination in India and Dutch control of East Indies
Popularization of Scientific Revolution and application of its methods to political, social, and ethical issues led to an increased (though not unchallenged) emphasis on reason in Euro culture
Rational and empirical thought challenged traditional ideas
Voltaire and Diderot apply Sci Rev principles to society
More printed materials, despite censorship, leads to greater literacy
Newspapers
Periodicals
Books
Pamphlets
The Encyclopedie
Natural sciences, pop culture, and literature expose Europeans to others outside Europe
Political and economic challenges to mercantilism and absolutism
Individual self-interest as Locke said
Mercantilism challenged by Adam Smith’s ideas of free trade and free market
Physiocrats
Quesney
Turgot
Demand for Religious Toleration
Intellectuals, including Voltaire and Diderot, developed new philosophies of deism, skepticism, and atheism
David Hume
Baron d’Holbach
Religion viewed as a private matter rather than a public necessity
By 1800, most governments had extended toleration to Christian minorities and, in some states, civil equality to Jews
Arts moved from celebration of religious themes and royal power to an emphasis on private life and the public good
Until 1750, Baroque art and music promoted religious feeling and was employed by monarchs to glorify state power
Diego Velazquez
Bernini
Handel
Bach
Artistic movements and literature also reflected the outlook and values of commercial and bourgeois society as well as new Enlightenment ideals of political power and citizenship
Rembrandt
Neoclassicism
Dutch paintings
Pantheon in Paris
Daniel Defoe
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Challenge of Enlightenment values to revive public sentiment and feeling
Rousseau questioned the exclusive reliance on reason and emphasized the role of emotions in the moral development of self and society
Revolution, war, and rebellion demonstrated the emotional power of mass politics and nationalism
Romanticism emerged to challenge Enlightenment rationality
Experiences of everyday life were shaped by demographic, environmental, medical and technological changes
In 17th century: small landholdings, low-productivity agricultural practices, poor transportation, and adverse weather limited the food supply
Famines happened because of it
In 18th century: Europeans began to escape the Malthusian imbalance between population and the food supply (as in Thomas Malthus in his Principles of Population)
Inoculation reduces smallpox mortality (…until the early 21st century when Idiot Americans try to bring the disease back by not immunizing…)
(Maybe Green Day was right…okay, back to the study guide)
The consumer revolution of the 18th century was shaped by a new concern for privacy, purchasing new goods for homes, and creating new venues for leisure
Homes built to include private retreats
Novels focused on private emotions
If they seriously ask you a question about either of the 2 things above, I give up on preparing kids for a future AP exam. That would be ridiculously trivial.
Taverns for leisure
Theatres for leisure
Opera houses for leisure
By 18th century, family and private life reflected the new demographic patterns and the effects of the commercial revolution
Population growth limited by change in European marriage pattern (marrying later)
Birth control in some areas
An increase in illegitimate births does not affect the population growth at-large
Infant and child mortality decreased while commercial wealth increased leading to families dedicating more space and resources to kids, child-rearing, private life, and comfortable living
More food with fewer workers leading people to migrate to cities
Erosion of traditional communal values
City governments struggle to provide protection and a healthy environment
Concentration of the poor in cities leads to a greater awareness of poverty, crime, and prostitution as social problems
Increased efforts to police those marginalized groups
Period 3: 1815-1914 (There are other people/concepts but most of these are the ones we’ve covered in class)
The Industrial Revolution spread from Great Britain to the continent, where the state played a greater role in promoting industry
Great Britain industrial dominance through mechanization of textile production, iron and steel production, and new transportation systems
Coal
Iron ore
Economic institutions and human capital
Engineers
Inventors
Capitalists
Crystal Palace at Great Exhibition of 1851
Banks
Government financial awards to investors
Britain’s parliamentary gov’t promoted commercial and industrial interests because those interests were represented in Parliament
Following the British example, Industrialization in Continental Europe
France moves at a gradual pace compared to Great Britain (because, of course they did…LOL) with gov’t support and less dislocation of traditional methods of production
Canals
Railroads
Trade agreements
Industrialization in Prussia was swift, allowing state to become leader of unified Germany because I want Bismarck to be my second father (okay, some was before Bismarck—whatever)
Zollverein
Investment in transportation network
Adoption of improved methods of manufacturing
Friedrich List’s National System
A combination of factors including geography, lack of resources, the dominance of traditional landed elites, serfs in some areas, and inadequate gov’t sponsorship accounted for Eastern and Southern Europe’s lag in industrial development
Lack of resources
Lack of adequate transportation
During the 2nd Industrial Revolution (1870-1914), more areas of Europe experienced industrial activity and industrial processes increased in scale and complexity
Mechanization and factory system predominant modes of production by 1914
New tech, transportation (including railroads), and communication resulted in fully integrated national economies, higher level of urbanization, and global econ network
Bessemer process
Mass production
Electricity
Chemicals
Telegraph
Steamship
Streetcars or trolley cars
Telephones
Internal combustion engine
Airplane
Radio
Volatile business cycles in the last quarter of the 19th century led corporations and governments to try to manage the market through monopolies, banking practices, and tariffs
The experiences of everyday life were shaped by industrialization, depending on the level of industrial development in a particular location
New classes emerged
Western and Northern Europe: divisions of labor led to development of self-conscious classes like proletariat and bourgeoisie
Less industrial regions: agricultural elites into the 20th century
Class identity in middle classes
Rapid population growth and urbanization leading to societal dislocations
Better harvests population growth, longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality
Migration to urban in industrialized regions, cities experience overcrowding while rural areas suffered declines in available labor as well as weakened communities
Industrial Revolution altered the family structure and relations for bourgeois and working-class families
Bourgeois
Focus on nuclear family
Cult of domesticity with distinct gender roles
By end of century, wages and quality of life for working class improved
Laws restricting child and women labor
Factory Act of 1833
Mines Act of 1842
Ten Hours Act of 1847
Social welfare programs
Improved diet
Birth control
Economic motivations for marriage diminish
Leisure time centered on family or small groups, concurrent with the development of activities and spaces to use that time
Parks
Sports clubs and arenas
Beaches
Department stores
Museums
Theatres
Opera Houses
A heightened consumerism developed as a result of the 2nd Industrial Revolution
Industrialization and mass marketing increased both the production and demand for a new range of consumer goods –including clothing, processed foods, and labor-saving devices—and created more leisure opportunities
Advertising
Department stores
Catalogs
New efficient methods of transportation and other innovations created new industries, improved distribution of goods, increased consumerism, and enhanced the quality of life
Steamships
Railroads
Refrigerated rail cars
Ice boxes
Streetcars
Bicycles
Chemical industry
Electricity and utilities
Automobile
Leisure travel
Professional and leisure sports
Because of the persistence of primitive agricultural practice and land-owning patterns, some areas of Europe lagged in industrialization while facing famine, debt, and land shortages
Irish Potato Famine
Russian Serfdom
Ideological response to industrialization
Ideologies developed and took root as a response to industrial and political revolutions
Liberal emphasis of popular sovereignty, individual rights, enlightened self-interest but debated the extent to which all groups in society should actively participate in its governance
Jeremy Bentham
Anti-Corn Law League (that sounds like fun!)
John Stuart Mill
Radicals in Britain and republicans on the continent demanded universal male suffrage and full citizenship without regard to wealth and property ownership; some argued rights should be extended to women (…et tu, Jarod?)
Chartists
Conservatives developed a new ideology in support of traditional political and religious authorities, based on idea that human nature was not perfectible
Edmund Burke
Joseph de Maistre
Klemens von Metternich
Socialists called for a fair distribution of society’s resources and wealth and evolved from a utopian to a Marxist scientific critique of capitalism
Charles Fournier (utopian)
Robert Owen (utopian)
Friedrich Engles (Marxist)
August Bebel (Marxist)
Anarchists asserted that all forms of governmental authority were unnecessary and should be overthrown and replaced with a society based on voluntary cooperation
Mikhail Bakunin
Georges Sorel
Nationalists encouraged loyalty to the flag including:
Romantic idealism
Liberal reform
Political unification
Pan-Slavists
Giuseppe Mazzini
Racialism, often with anti-Semitism
Dreyfus Affair
Christian Social Party in Germany
Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (ties to Hitler’s political beginnings)
Chauvinism justifying nationalism
Zionist Movement
Theodor Herzl
Governments deal with industrial problems by expanding their functions and creating modern bureaucracies
Liberalism shifts from laissez-faire (“Hands Off!”) to interventionist economic and social policies on behalf of the less privileged
Policies based on rational approach to reform addressing the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the individual
Gov’t transforms unhealthy and overcrowded cities
Modernizing infrastructure
Sewage and water systems
Public lighting
Public housing
Urban redesign
Parks
Public transportation
Regulating public health
Reforming prisons
Establishing modern police forces
Gov’t promotes public education
Political movements and social organizations responded to the problems of industrialization
Mass-based political parties emerged for social, political, and economic reform
Conservatives and liberals in Great Britain
Conservatives and socialists in France
Social Democratic Party in Germany
Workers established labor unions/movements to promote social and economic reform that also developed political parties
German Social Democratic Party
British Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Party
Feminists pushed for women’s rights
Flora Tristen
British Women’s Social and Political Union
Pankhurst family
Private, nongovernmental reform movements for the poor, to end serfdom, and end slavery
Sunday School movement
Temperance movement
British Abolitionist movement
Josephine Butler
Maintain international stability in an age of nationalism and revolutions
Metternich suppresses liberalism and nationalism
Conservatism re-established control in many Euro states and suppress movements for change
European nations were driven by economic, political, and cultural motivations in their new imperial ventures in Asia and Africa
National rivalries Imperial expansion
Search for raw materials and markets, strategic and nationalistic considerations leads to African and Asian colonization
Justified through idea of cultural and racial superiority
Industrial and technological developments (2nd Industrial Revolution) European control of global empires
Advanced weaponry military superiority of Euros over those colonized
Bullet
Breech-loading rifle
Machine gun
Communication and transportation technologies created empires
Advances in medicine supported imperialism through longer Euro lives
Pasteur’s germ theory of disease
Anesthesia and antiseptics
Public health projects
Change in Euro society, diplomacy, and culture created resistance to foreign control abroad
Tensions straining alliance systems
Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
Fashoda Crisis (1898)
Moroccan Crises (1905, 1911)
Encounters with non-European writers and artists lead to debate over the acquisition of colonies
Jules Verne
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
Challenge to European imperialism through nationalist movements and/or modernizing their own societies and economies
Indian Congress Party
Zulu resistance
India’s Sepoy Mutiny
China’s Boxer Rebellion (HARMONIOUS FISTS UNITE!)
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Romanticism broke with neoclassical forms of artistic representation and with rationalism, placing more emphasis on intuition and emotion
Emphasis on emotion, nature, individuality, intuition, the supernatural, and national histories in their works
Francisco Goya
Caspar David Friedrich
J. M. W. Turner
John Constable
Eugene Delacroix
Beethoven
Chopin
Richard Wagner
Tchaikovsky
Romantic writers wrote on similar themes responding to Industrial Revolution and various political revolutions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
John Keats
Mary Shelley
Victor Hugo
Following the revolutions of 1848, Europe turned toward a realist and materialist worldview
Positivism emphasized the rational and scientific analysis of nature and human affairs
Darwin provided Social Darwinism
Inadvertently led to racial/cultural superiority claims
Marx’s scientific socialism
Critique of capitalism
Analyzed society and historical evolution
Realist and materialist themes and attitudes seen in art and literature
Ordinary peoples’ lives depicted and drew attention to social problems
Charles Dickens
Gustave Corbet
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jean-Francois Millet
Leo Tolstoy
Emile Zola
A new relativism in values and a loss of confidence in the objectivity of knowledge led to modernism in intellectual and cultural life
Philosophy from rational interpretations of nature and human society emphasizing irrationality and impulse
Belief that conflict and struggle lead to progress
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georges Sorel
Henri Bergson
Freudian psychology provided a new account of human nature that emphasized the role of the irrational and the struggle between conscious and subconscious
Developments in natural sciences undermined Newtonian physics
Quantum mechanics
Einstein’s theory of relativity
Max Planck
Marie and Pierre Curie
Modern art, including impressionism, post-impressionism, and cubism moved from the representational subjective, abstract, and expressive
Often provoked audiences that believed that art should reflect shared and idealized values such as beauty and patriotism
Claude Monet
Paul Cezanne
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Period 4: 1914-Present (There are other people/concepts but these are the ones we’ve covered in class)