Everything Everywhere AP European Curriculum

For Teachers: How to Everything Everywhere Daily in the Classroom

Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration

  1. Italian Renaissance
  2. Northern Renaissance
  3. Humanism
  4. Art and architecture
  5. Printing press
  6. New monarchies
  7. Age of Exploration
  8. Columbian Exchange
  9. Early globalization
  10. Mercantilism

Unit 2: Age of Reformation

  1. Protestant Reformation
  2. Martin Luther
  3. John Calvin
  4. English Reformation
  5. Catholic Reformation
  6. Council of Trent
  7. Religious conflict
  8. Wars of religion
  9. Thirty Years’ War

Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism

  1. Absolute monarchy
  2. Louis XIV
  3. Palace of Versailles
  4. Divine right theory
  5. Constitutional monarchy
  6. English Civil War
  7. Glorious Revolution
  8. Parliamentary supremacy
  9. Balance of power

Unit 4: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

  1. Scientific method
  2. Copernican model
  3. Galileo Galilei
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. Enlightenment philosophy
  6. Natural rights
  7. Social contract theory
  8. Salons
  9. Enlightened absolutism

Unit 5: French Revolution and Napoleon

  1. Causes of the French Revolution
  2. Estates General
  3. National Assembly
  4. Declaration of the Rights of Man
  5. Reign of Terror
  6. Rise of Napoleon
  7. Napoleonic Wars
  8. Congress of Vienna
  9. Conservatism and reaction

Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects

  1. Industrial Revolution
  2. Agricultural Revolution
  3. Urbanization
  4. Factory system
  5. Labor movements
  6. Capitalism
  7. Socialism
  8. Marxism
  9. Class structure

Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives and Political Developments

  1. Liberalism
  2. Nationalism
  3. Conservatism
  4. Revolutions of 1848
  5. Unification of Italy
  6. Unification of Germany
  7. Realpolitik
  8. Imperialism
  9. National rivalries

Unit 8: Twentieth Century Global Conflicts

  1. Causes of World War I
  2. Total war
  3. Russian Revolution
  4. Treaty of Versailles
  5. Interwar instability
  6. Rise of fascism
  7. Nazi Germany
  8. World War II
  9. Holocaust

Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe

  1. Cold War origins
  2. Eastern and Western blocs
  3. European integration
  4. Welfare state
  5. Decolonization
  6. 1968 protests
  7. Fall of communism
  8. European Union
  9. Post-Cold War Europe