TransferCredit.org AP® European History Prep Course

Prep for the AP® European History exam: 82 lessons with quizzes, 57 interactive labs, and twin full-length exams with written parts and scoring guides. Not affiliated with the College Board.

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1. 1.1 Contexts of Change: Europe before 1450 and the roots of the Renaissance
2. Quiz 1.1
3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: Before 1450: Crises and Country Life
4. 1.2 The Italian Renaissance: humanism, patrons, and city-states
5. Quiz 1.2
6. 1.3 The Northern Renaissance: Christian humanism and the arts
7. Quiz 1.3
8. 1.4 Printing and New Monarchies: ideas spread and states strengthen
9. Quiz 1.4
10. 1.4 Interactive Lab: Presses and Crowns
11. 1.5 Technology and Exploration: ships, navigation, and motives
12. Quiz 1.5
13. 1.5 Interactive Lab: Routes, Crowns and Dates
14. 1.6 Rivals on the World Stage: Portugal, Spain, and others
15. Quiz 1.6
16. 1.6 Interactive Lab: The Line of 1494
17. 1.7 Colonial Expansion and the Columbian Exchange
18. Quiz 1.7
19. 1.7 Interactive Lab: Sorting the Columbian Exchange
20. 1.8 The Slave Trade and the Commercial Revolution
21. Quiz 1.8
22. 1.8 Interactive Lab: Prices and Real Wages in Country X
23. 1.9 Causation: why the Renaissance and Age of Discovery happened
24. Quiz 1.9
25. 1.9 Interactive Lab: Causation Planner: Unit 1
1. 2.1 Contexts of Religious Conflict: the Church before 1517
2. Quiz 2.1
3. 2.2 Luther and the Protestant Reformation
4. Quiz 2.2
5. 2.2 Interactive Lab: Luther's Break with Rome
6. 2.3 Protestant Reform Continues: Calvin, Anabaptists, and England
7. Quiz 2.3
8. 2.3 Interactive Lab: Sorting the Reformers
9. 2.4 The Wars of Religion
10. Quiz 2.4
11. 2.4 Interactive Lab: The Century of Religious War
12. 2.5 The Catholic Reformation
13. Quiz 2.5
14. 2.6 16th-Century Society and Politics: families, witch hunts, and states
15. Quiz 2.6
16. 2.6 Interactive Lab: Late Marriage and Births
17. 2.7 Mannerism and Baroque Art: religion and power in art
18. Quiz 2.7
19. 2.8 Causation: the Reformation and the Wars of Religion
20. Quiz 2.8
21. 2.8 Interactive Lab: Plan a Causation Answer
1. 3.1 Contexts of State Building: why monarchs centralized
2. Quiz 3.1
3. 3.2 The English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution
4. Quiz 3.2
5. 3.2 Interactive Lab: Money, Religion and Sovereignty
6. 3.3 Continuities and Changes in Economic Practice
7. Quiz 3.3
8. 3.3 Interactive Lab: Two Rotations, One Farm
9. 3.4 Economic Development and Mercantilism
10. Quiz 3.4
11. 3.4 Interactive Lab: The Duchy's Balance of Trade
12. 3.5 The Dutch Golden Age: trade, tolerance, and republic
13. Quiz 3.5
14. 3.6 Balance of Power: diplomacy and wars among states
15. Quiz 3.6
16. 3.6 Interactive Lab: Balance of Power: order and map
17. 3.7 Absolutist Approaches to Power: Louis XIV, Russia, and Prussia
18. Quiz 3.7
19. 3.7 Interactive Lab: Absolutist tools and their limits
20. 3.8 Comparison: absolutism and constitutionalism
21. Quiz 3.8
22. 3.8 Interactive Lab: Comparison planner: absolutism and constitutionalism
1. 4.1 Contexts of Intellectual Change
2. Quiz 4.1
3. 4.2 The Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Newton
4. Quiz 4.2
5. 4.2 Interactive Lab: Order and Method
6. 4.3 The Enlightenment: reason, rights, and critics
7. Quiz 4.3
8. 4.3 Interactive Lab: Who Said It? Enlightenment Claims
9. 4.4 18th-Century Society and Demographics
10. Quiz 4.4
11. 4.4 Interactive Lab: Counting Europe: Growth by Century
12. 4.5 18th-Century Culture and Arts: salons, rococo, and neoclassicism
13. Quiz 4.5
14. 4.6 Enlightened and Other Approaches to Power
15. Quiz 4.6
16. 4.6 Interactive Lab: Enlightened, or Just Powerful?
17. 4.7 Causation: science and the Enlightenment
18. Quiz 4.7
19. 4.7 Interactive Lab: Plan a Causation Answer
1. 5.1 Contexts of 18th-Century States
2. Quiz 5.1
3. 5.2 The Rise of Global Markets and Britain's Ascendency
4. Quiz 5.2
5. 5.2 Interactive Lab: Traders, Rulers and Rivals
6. 5.3 The French Revolution: from Estates-General to Terror
7. Quiz 5.3
8. 5.3 Interactive Lab: From Complaint Lists to the Guillotine
9. 5.4 The French Revolution's Effects across Europe
10. Quiz 5.4
11. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Who Spoke, and for Whom?
12. 5.5 Napoleon's Rise, Dominance, and Defeat
13. Quiz 5.5
14. 5.5 Interactive Lab: Rise, Empire and Resistance
15. 5.6 The Congress of Vienna: restoring order
16. Quiz 5.6
17. 5.7 Romanticism: emotion and nature against reason
18. Quiz 5.7
19. 5.8 Continuity and Change in 18th-Century States
20. Quiz 5.8
21. 5.8 Interactive Lab: Plan a Continuity and Change Answer
1. 6.1 Contexts of Industrialization
2. Quiz 6.1
3. 6.2 The Spread of Industry throughout Europe
4. Quiz 6.2
5. 6.2 Interactive Lab: Mapping Industry's Spread
6. 6.3 Second Wave Industrialization and Its Effects
7. Quiz 6.3
8. 6.3 Interactive Lab: Germany Catches Up
9. 6.4 Social Effects of Industrialization: cities, class, and families
10. Quiz 6.4
11. 6.4 Interactive Lab: A Fictional Mill Town by the Numbers
12. 6.5 The Concert of Europe and European Conservatism
13. Quiz 6.5
14. 6.6 Reactions and Revolutions: 1830 and 1848
15. Quiz 6.6
16. 6.6 Interactive Lab: Sorting the Revolts
17. 6.7 Ideologies of Change and Reform Movements: liberalism, socialism, and more
18. Quiz 6.7
19. 6.7 Interactive Lab: Whose Claim Is This?
20. 6.8 19th-Century Social Reform and Institutional Responses
21. Quiz 6.8
22. 6.8 Interactive Lab: Who Pushed for Reform?
23. 6.9 Causation in the Age of Industrialization
24. Quiz 6.9
25. 6.9 Interactive Lab: Causation Planner: Why Did Industry Spread Unevenly?
1. 7.1 Contexts of 19th-Century Perspectives
2. Quiz 7.1
3. 7.2 Nationalism: ideas and movements
4. Quiz 7.2
5. 7.2 Interactive Lab: One Idea, Three Effects
6. 7.3 National Unification and Diplomatic Tensions: Italy and Germany
7. Quiz 7.3
8. 7.3 Interactive Lab: Building Italy and Germany
9. 7.4 Darwinism and Social Darwinism
10. Quiz 7.4
11. 7.5 The Age of Progress and Modernity
12. Quiz 7.5
13. 7.6 New Imperialism: motivations and methods
14. Quiz 7.6
15. 7.6 Interactive Lab: Motive or Method? Reading the Case for Empire
16. 7.7 Imperialism's Global Effects
17. Quiz 7.7
18. 7.7 Interactive Lab: Empire's Crises and Responses: Order and Schematic
19. 7.8 19th-Century Culture and Arts: realism to impressionism
20. Quiz 7.8
21. 7.9 Causation in 19th-Century Perspectives
22. Quiz 7.9
23. 7.9 Interactive Lab: Causation Planner: Tensions Before 1914
1. 8.1 Contexts of 20th-Century Conflict
2. Quiz 8.1
3. 8.2 World War I: alliances, trenches, and total war
4. Quiz 8.2
5. 8.2 Interactive Lab: Turning Points and Evidence of World War I
6. 8.3 The Russian Revolution and Its Effects
7. Quiz 8.3
8. 8.3 Interactive Lab: Two Revolutions and Three Camps
9. 8.4 The Versailles Conference and Peace Settlement
10. Quiz 8.4
11. 8.4 Interactive Lab: Three Zones, Three Outcomes
12. 8.5 Global Economic Crisis: the Great Depression
13. Quiz 8.5
14. 8.5 Interactive Lab: Measuring a Slump in Country X
15. 8.6 Fascism and Totalitarianism: Italy, Germany, and the USSR
16. Quiz 8.6
17. 8.7 Europe during the Interwar Period
18. Quiz 8.7
19. 8.7 Interactive Lab: The Road to War
20. 8.8 World War II and the Holocaust: causes, course, and genocide
21. Quiz 8.8
22. 8.9 20th-Century Culture, Ideas, and Arts
23. Quiz 8.9
24. 8.10 Continuity and Change in an Age of Global Conflict
25. Quiz 8.10
26. 8.10 Interactive Lab: Continuity and Change Planner, 1914-1945
1. 9.1 Contexts of Cold War Europe
2. Quiz 9.1
3. 9.2 Rebuilding Europe: the Marshall Plan and welfare states
4. Quiz 9.2
5. 9.2 Interactive Lab: Who Grew Fastest, and Why?
6. 9.3 The Cold War and the Emergence of Two Superpowers
7. Quiz 9.3
8. 9.3 Interactive Lab: Two Blocs, One Line
9. 9.4 Postwar Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Atrocities
10. Quiz 9.4
11. 9.5 Contemporary Western Democracies and the Fall of Communism
12. Quiz 9.5
13. 9.5 Interactive Lab: How Communism Fell
14. 9.6 20th-Century Feminism and Decolonization
15. Quiz 9.6
16. 9.6 Interactive Lab: Ways Out of Empire, and Two Waves of Feminism
17. 9.7 The European Union, Migration, and Immigration
18. Quiz 9.7
19. 9.7 Interactive Lab: EU Membership Lab
20. 9.8 Technology and Globalization
21. Quiz 9.8
22. 9.9 Culture, Arts, and Demographic Trends since 1900; Continuity and Change
23. Quiz 9.9
24. 9.9 Interactive Lab: Continuity and Change Lab: Europe, 1945-2001
1. 10.1 Short-Answer Questions: answering all parts in a few sentences
2. Quiz 10.1
3. 10.1 Interactive Lab: Three SAQs in Three Shapes
4. 10.2 The DBQ: thesis, contextualization, and using seven documents
5. Quiz 10.2
6. 10.2 Interactive Lab: Plan a DBQ: Britain and the French Revolution
7. 10.3 DBQ Sourcing: point of view, purpose, and audience
8. Quiz 10.3
9. 10.3 Interactive Lab: Source It or Summarize It?
10. 10.4 The Long Essay: One Required Prompt, Your Evidence and Reasoning
11. Quiz 10.4
12. 10.4 Interactive Lab: One Required Prompt: Plan and Score a Long Essay
13. 10.5 Multiple-Choice Strategy: reading stimuli and matching skills
14. Quiz 10.5
15. 10.5 Interactive Lab: 55 in 55: A Timed Drill and What Each Point Is Worth
1. Final Practice Exam - Instructions
2. Final Practice Exam
3. Final Practice Exam - Written Part
4. Final Practice Exam - Written Part Scoring Guide
5. Final Exam - Instructions
6. Final Exam
7. Final Exam - Written Part
8. Final Exam - Written Part Scoring Guide

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Chapter 1: Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration, c. 1450-c. 1648

Chapter 2: Unit 2: Age of Reformation, c. 1450-c. 1648

Chapter 3: Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, c. 1648-c. 1815

Chapter 4: Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments, c. 1648-c. 1815

Chapter 5: Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century, c. 1648-c. 1815

Chapter 6: Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects, c. 1815-c. 1914

Chapter 7: Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments, c. 1815-c. 1914

Chapter 8: Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts, c. 1914-present

Chapter 9: Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe, c. 1914-present

Chapter 10: Exam Skills and Writing Practice

Chapter 11: Final Practice Exam and Final Exam

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