AP European History

AP European History is a year long course that will survey the major trends in European History from the Renaissance (1450) to the modern day (2001). It is comparable in scope and challenge to a college level introductory course. Its principal aim is to provide students with an opportunity to master and demonstrate an understanding of European history and culture, including: intellectual and cultural history, political and diplomatic history, and economic and social history.

 

This history course will provide a window into Europe’s past. Europe has influenced much of the contemporary world, whether it was through the Enlightenment thinkers who created a mouthpiece for democracy or the politicians who redrew territories in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Europe has brought us so many great thinkers like the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, the God of War Napoleon Bonaparte, the Romantic poet William Blake, and the revolutionary scientist Isaac Newton. Europe is a story of power, of change, of religion. History is the gateway to realization. It was Niccolò Machiavelli who said,

 

 

"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”