AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
SUMMER WORK — 2016/17 INSTRUCTIONS
COURSE MATERIAL
AP European History Syllabus 2015/16
TEXTBOOK
Western Civilization, 9th Edition
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UNIT 1—THE MEDIEVAL COLLAPSE: BLACK DEATH AND WAR
CHAPTER 8: European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000
CHAPTER 9: The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages
CHAPTER 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
CHAPTER 11—The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
UNIT 2—REMAKING EUROPE: RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND ABSOLUTISM
CHAPTER 12—Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
CHAPTER 13—Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century
UNIT 3—THE TRIUMPH OF REASON: SCIENCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND THE STATE
CHAPTER 14—Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800
CHAPTER 15—State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER 17—The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment
CHAPTER 18—The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
UNIT 4—OF MACHINES AND MEN: REVOLUTION, REACTION, AND INDUSTRY
CHAPTER 19—A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
CHAPTER 20—The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
CHAPTER 21—Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850
UNIT 5—RISE OF THE MODERN WEST: NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM
CHAPTER 22—An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871
CHAPTER 23—Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871-1894
CHAPTER 24—An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914
UNIT 6—THE WEST DIVIDED: GLOBAL WAR AND EMPIRE
CHAPTER 25—The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
CHAPTER 26—The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939
CHAPTER 27—The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II
UNIT 7—THE WEST REUNITED: COLD WAR AND THE NEW WEST
CHAPTER 28—Cold War and A New Western World, 1945-1965
CHAPTER 29—Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965-1985
CHAPTER 30—After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)
