AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

 

STUDY GUIDE TERMS

 

 

*The following is a list of study guide terms for the entire course.  While this is not a complete list, is is quite substantial and follows material related to each chapter of McKay, A History of Western Society.  The terms will be upated, hopefully with the help of AP European students, throughout the school year.  So far I have put up terms for Chapters 12-21 of McKay.  This includes everything from the Late Middle Ages to the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era.   This will be the stopping point for the class for the 1st Semester.  I will put the 2nd Semester Terms (Chapters 22-31) on this site during Christmas Vacation.

 

CHAPTER 12

Four Horseman of the Apocalypse Geoffrey Chaucer
European Famine (1315-1317) Craft Guilds
Edward I (Longshanks) Wat Tyler and John Ball (1381 Revolt)
Edward II The Jacquerie (1358)
Phillip IV (the Fair) The Ciompi Revolt (1378)
The Black Plague Marsiglio of Padua/ Defensor Pacis
The Hundred Years' War (1337-1456) John Wycliffe/ Lollards
Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt Jan Hus/ Hussites
Longbow/Cannon Francois Villon
Joan of Arc/ Battle of Orleans Christine de Pisan
Nationalism/ Chivalry Thomas Becket
Fur Collar Criminals St. Catherine of Siena
The 2nd Babylonian Captivity (1305-77) Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Clement V The Golden Bull (1356)
Pope Urban VI Unam Sanctam
The Great Schism (1378-1417) Crime at Agnani
The Conciliar Movement Treaty of Troyes (1420
The Council of Constance (1414-1417) Charles VII (the dauphin)
The Council of Pisa (1409) Edward III (the Black Prince)
The Council of Basel Battle of Castillon (1453)
Vernacular Literature Battle of Sluys (1340)
Dante Alghieri Sallic Law

 

CHAPTER 13

Pope Alexander VI  (orgy pope) Francois Rabelais
Giovanni Boccaccio Massaccio
Sandro Botticelli The "New Monarchs"
Filippo Brunelleschi The Star Chamber
Michelangelo Buanorroti Quattrocentro
Baldasarre Castiglione "L'uomo Universale"
Benvenuto Cellini Raphael Sanzio
Leonardo Da Vinci Cesare Borgia
Lorenzo and Cosimo De' Medici Lorenzo Valla
Pico della Mirandola The Hapsburg-Valois Wars
Donatello The War of the Roses (1455-85)
Erasmus Reconquista/ Poemo del mio Cid
Jacob Fugger Johann Gutenburg/ The Printing Press
Lorenzo Ghiberti Laura Cereta  "Real Sister Shakespeare"
Giotto Sofonisba Anguissola
Hans Holbein the Younger Jan Van Eyck
Renaissance Humanism Jacques Lefevre D'Etaples
Individualism The Inquisition/ Moriscos
Secularism Leon Battista Alberti
Classical Antiquity Giorgione/ Titian
Pope Julius II (warrior pope) 5 Artistic Movements of Renaissance
Pope Leo X (indulgences pope) Pazzi Conspiracy (1478)
Niccolo Machiavelli Isabelle D'Este
Sir Thomas More Charles V's sack of Rome (1527)
Francois Rabelais Charles VII's invasion of Italy (1494)
Girolamo Savanarola  

 

CHAPTER 14

Thomas Wolsey Geneva/ "A City that was a church"
Antoine Du Prat The Consistory
Absenteeism Michael Servetus
Benifices, Pluralism, Simony Predestination/ The Elect
Cardinal Franciso Jiminez Anabaptists/ Thomas Munzer, John of Leyden, Munster Rebels, Menno Simons
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Peasant Revolts (1523-24), 12 Articles
The Lateran Council (1512-1517) William Tyndale
Archbishop Albert Henry VIII/ Catherine of Aragon/ Anne Boelyn
Johann Tetzel Pope Clement VII
Martin Luther/ 95 Theses Thomas Cramner/ Book of Common Prayer/ 42 Articles of Religion
Diet of Worms (1521) Turmoil of the Extremes
Johann Eyck Pilgrimmage of Grace
Charles V (an inherited migraine) Mary Tudor
Transubstantiation/Consubstantiation Edward VI
Luther's Political Conservatism Elizabeth I/ Act of Uniformity/ 39 Articles
The Golden Bull (1356) Henry VIII's ambiguously Catholic Legacy/ Six Articles
Schmalkaldic League Mary, Queen of Scots
Peace of Augsburg (1555)  "cuius regio,                                              eius religio" John Knox, Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Uldrich Zwingli/ Marburg Colloquy Pope Adrian VI
St. Ignatius of Loyola/ Spiritual Exercises Gian Pietro Caraffa/ Roman Inquisition
Jesuits/ Society of Jesus Council of Trent (1545-63)
Catholic/Counter Reformation Angela Merici/ Ursulines
Index of Prohibited Books St. Theresa of Avila/ Discalced Carmelites
excommunication/interdict  
Jean Calvin/ Institutes of Christian Religion  

 

CHAPTER 15

Prince Henry the Navigator/ Sagres St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
Ceuta War of the Three Henry's
Prester John politique
Vasco de Gama Henry IV of Navarre/ "Paris is worth a Mass"
Pedro Cabral Edict of Nantes (1598)
Bartholomew Diaz Duke of Sully
Alfonso de Albequerque Phillip II/ Ferdinand I
Cannon, Caravel, Astrolabe Revolt of the Netherlands
Explorers' Motives for Exploration Duke of Alva/ Council of Blood
The Christopher Columbus Controversy Iconoclasm
Ferdinand Magellen 1588/ Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Jacques Cartier Battle of Lepanto (1573)
John Cabot Alexander Farnese/ Carrot-Stick Diplomacy
Sir Walter Raleigh The Netherlandian Split/ Union of Utrecht
Francisco Pizarro Thirty Years War (1618-48)/ Four Phases
Peruvian Silver Mines/ Bullion Albert of Wallenstein
Audencia/ Intendents/ Encomiendas Christian IV of Denmark/ Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559) Edict of Restitution
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges Bohemia/ Defenestration of Prague
Concordat of Bologna Lutzen and Breitenfeld
Gabelle/ Taille Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Huguenots The Great European Witchhunt
Catherine de'Medici (Mob Boss) European Slavery/ Modern Racism
Henry's 3 Inept, Inbred Sons Michel de Montaigne/ Essays/ Modern Skepticism
Navarre/Bourbon/Guise Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
John Milton Mannerism/ Anti-Renaissance
William Shakespeare Dutch Style/ Dutch Masters
Christopher Marlowe William "the Silent" of Orange
John Donne The Biological Exchange
The Baroque Period in Art Bartolome De Las Casas
Peter Paul Rubens/ Caravaggio/ Velasquez/ Bernini Treaty of Tordesillas/ Treaty of Alvocavas/ Papal Demarcation Line
Johann Sebastian Bach John van Oldenbarneveldt

 

CHAPTER 16

Absolutism Interregnum stadholders
Maximilian de Bethune Oliver Cromwell Reasons for the Decline of Spain
Henry IV of France Instrument of Government Nicholas Poussin
Cardinal Richelieu Levellers/ Diggers Robert Walpole/ CABAL
Louis XIII Puritannical Absolutism Act of Succession
"Raison D'Etat" Test Act (1673) Queen Anne
Balance of Power Diplomacy The Restoration Prince Eugene of Savoy
Bishop Jacques Bossuet/ Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture Charles II/ Treaty of Dover Duke of Marlborough
Thomas Hobbes/ Leviathon Oates Plot Battle of Blenheim
Versailles/ "Playboy Mansion" Gunpowder Plot Bishop Cornelius Jansen
J.B. Colbert/ Mercantilism Lord Fairfax corvee
Cardinal Mazarin/ The Fronde (1648-53) The Glorious Revolution nobility of the robe/ nobility of the sword
Marquis de Louvois William and Mary intendants
Jean Martinet Parliament/ Bill of Rights/ Constitutional Monarchy Duc de Saint-Simon
Sebastian Vauban French Classicism  
"Court of the High Commission" Racine/ Moliere/ Corneille  
Archbishop Wiliam Laud Balance of Trade/ Balance of Power  
Long Parliament Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685)  
Triennial Act Louis' Wars  
John Pym War of Spanish Successsion  
James I Treaty of Utrecht (1713)  
Charles I "L'Etat, C'est Moi"  
Petition of Right Asiento  
English Civil War Golden Age of the Netherlands  

 

CHAPTER 17

Eastern Absolutism vs. Western Absolutism St. Basil's Cathedral
Eastern European Peasantry/ 2nd Serfdom Boyars
Suleiman the Magnificent "The Time of Troubles"
Ottoman Turks Stenka Razin/ Cossaks
Siege of Vienna (1683) Believers/ Non-Believers
The Hapsburgs of Austria Archbishop Nikon
Pragmatic Sanction (1713) Peter the Great
Leopold I Holy Synod
Treaty of Karlowitz (1699) Service Nobility
Magyars Great Northern War/ Peace of Nystad (1721)
Charles VI Battles of Narva and Poltava
Rakoczy Rebellion Strelsti Rebellion
Brandenburg (The Sandbox) St. Petersburg
The House of Hohenzollern Eastern European Baroque
Frederick William "The Great Elector" Wurzburg/ Schoenbrunn
King Frederick I/ also Frederick VII "the ostentatious" Karlsruhe
Frederick William I "the Solider King" The Romanov Dynasty
Junkers The Table of Ranks
Ghengis Khan/ Mongols/ Golden Hordes  
Tsar  
Kievan Rus'  
Ivan III, The Great/ Defeat of Novgorad  
Muscovite Russia  
Ivan IV, "The Terrible"  

 

CHAPTER 18

Nicholas Copernicus/ On Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (1543) Development of science and mathematics as an aid to navigation:  Barometer, Microscope, Pendulum Clock, Telescope, Thermometer Madame Geoffrin, Julie de Lespinasse, Madame de Tencin
Ptolemaic/ Aristotelian Geocentrism Natural Laws Frederick II "the Great"
Heliocentric theory The Age of Reason Joseph II
Tycho Brahe/ Geo-Heliocentric Theory Enlightenment Maria Theresa
Johannes Kepler Voltaire Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz
Galileo Galelei/ Dialogue on Two Chief Systems (1632) Deism/ Religious toleration War of Austrian Succession
Sir Isaac Newton/ Principia Mathematica (1687) Bernard de Fontenelle Seven Years' War
Francis Bacon/ Novum Organum (1620) Pierre Bayle Catherine the Great
Rene Descartes/ Discourse on Method (1637) John Locke Pugachev Rebellion
Inductive/ Deductive Method J.J. Rousseau Partition of Poland
Anders Celsius Baron de Montesquieu Louis XV
Robert Boyle Denis Diderot/ Jean le Rond D'Alembert Rene de Maupeou
Gottfried von Leibniz Francois Quesnay, Jacques Turgot, Physiocrats Parlement of Paris
Carolus Linneaus Cesare Beccaria "Power of the Purse"
William Harvey Marquis de Condorcet Tsar Peter III's "save"
Anton von Leuuwenhoek Adam Smith Enlightened Despotism
Andreas Vesalius Les Salons/ Les Salonieres Daniel Defoe
James Hutton Baron Paul D'Holbach Jonathon Swift
John Napier David Hume William Hogarth
Christian Huygens Blaise Pascal Rococco Art Period
Greshem College Baruch Spinoza English School Painters
French Academie Philosophes War of Polish Succession
Royal Society of London Tabula Rasa War of Jenkins' Ear
Pope Urban VII Immanuel Kant Silesia
Diplomatic Revoluton/ Convention of Westminster (1759)  
   

CHAPTER 19

Open-Field System Enclosure Acts (1st and 2nd)
Jean Francois Millet/ The Gleaners (1857) Cottage Industry/ Putting out System
Charles "turnip" Townshend Population Explosion
Jethro Tull Navigation Acts
Cornelius Vermuyden Bullionism/ Mercantilism/ Capitalism
Agricultural Revolution Commercial Rivalries
Robert Bakewell International Wars (18th Century)
Arthur Young King George's War (1740-48)
Cyrus McCormick French and Indian War (1756-63)
Eli Whitnes Treaty of Paris (1763)
William Pitt the Elder  
Robert Clive/ Battle of Plassey (1757)  
   
   
   
   

 

CHAPTER 20

Extended and Nuclear Families Surgeons/Physicians/Faith Healers/Apothecaries
Marriage Patterns of 17th and 18th century William Tuke/ Lunatic
Pre-Marital Sex and Community Controls Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Wet-Nursing Edward Jenner/ Small Pox
Overlaying Edict of Idle Institutions
Foundling Hospitals/ Infanticide Public/ Masses
Schools/ Popular Literature John Wesley/ Charles Wesley
Diets/ Nutrition Pietism/Methodism
gout/scurvy L'Hotel-Dieu/ Diderot
The Potato J.J. Rousseau/ Emile

 

CHAPTER 21

Liberalism July 14, 1789 Girondists
Marquis de Lafayette The Bastille Levee en Masse
Stamp Act Declaration of the Rights of Man The Guillotine
George Grenville Mary Wollestonecraft/ Olympe de Gouges "The Revolutions devours its own!"
"no taxation without representation" Moderate/Radical Revoluton Temple of Reason
Townshend Acts The Great Fear/ Night of September 4th Thermidorian Reaction
Boston Massacre/ Tea Party Jacobins/Cordeliers/Feuillants White Terror
American Revolution assignats Francois Babeuf
Thomas Paine/ Common Sense Civil Constitution of the Clergy The Directory
Thomas Jefferson National Assembly (1789-91) Napoleon Bonaparte
Articles of Confederations Legislative Assembly (1791-92) The Coalition Wars
U.S. Constitution/ Bill of Rights National Convention (1792-95) The Egyptian Campaign
Federalists/ Anti-Federalists Emigres Concordat of 1801
Jacques Necker Declaration of Pillnitz Lycees/ L'Ecole Polytechnique
Assembly of Notables The Brunswick Manifesto Napoleonic Code (1804)
Estates General The Flight of Varennes Battle of Trafalgar
Louis XVI Women's March (Oct. 5-6, 1789) Admiral Horatio Nelson
Edmund Burke Le Vendee Battle of Austelitz
Tennis Court Oath The Mountain Treaty of Tilsit
Cahiers des Doleances September Massacres Continental System
Third Estate Committee of Public Safefy Peninsular War
Abbe Joseph Sieyes/ What is the Third Estate? Sans-Culottes Russian Campaign
Compte de Mirabeau Robespierre Duke of Wellington
The Bread Thing Marat, Danton, Carnot Fall/ 100 Days
Treaty of Chaumont Goya/ The Third of May, 1808  
Waterloo    
Elba/ St. Helena    
Jacques Louis David    
Nepotism    
Napoleonic Code on the Road    

 

*The rest of the study guide terms will be up before the beginning of 2nd semester.

 

SECOND SEMESTER STUDY GUIDE TERMS

 

Chapter 22
James Hargreaves/ John Kay "Cottage Industry"
Richard Arwwright Gottlieb Daimler/ Karl Benz/ Rudolf Diesel
Samuel Crompton Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851)
Edmund Cartwright 'Workshop of the World"
Eli Whitney William Lovett/ London Workingman's Association
Ned Ludd/ Luddites Chartism/ The Northern Star/ Feargus O'Conner
Thomas Savery/Thomas Newcomen Thomas Malthus/ David Ricardo
James Watt/ The Watt Revolution William Cockerill / Fritz Harcourt/ Friedrich List
Henry Bessemer/ William Siemens/ Henry Cort The Zollverein/ Credit Mobilier
George Stephenson/ The Rocket Samuel F.B. Morse
Robert Fulton/ Clermont William Blake/ "Satanic Mills"
The Combination Acts Friedich Engels/ The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
GNTCU/ Grand National Consolidated Trade Union Edwin Chadwick
  Robert Owen/ The Sadler Commission/ Factory Act of 1833
  Ashley Mines Commission/ Hurriers/ The Mines Act of 1842
   
   
   

 

Chapter 23
"Dual Revolution" Guiseppe Mazzini/ Carbonari/ Young Italy/ Popolari
Quadruple Alliance Louis Kossuth
Klemens von Metternich Burchenschaften/ Karlsbad Decrees/ Karl Sand/ Auguste von Kotzebue
Robert Castlereagh French Utopian Socialism
Charles Talleyrand Charles Fourier/ Robert Owen/ Louis Blanc/ Pierre Proudhon/ Count de Saint-Simon
Congress of Vienna Auguste Blanqui
Polish Kingdom and Saxony Friedrich Engels/ Karl Marx/ Communist Manifesto/ Das Kapital
Prince Karl von Hardenberg Georg Hegel/ Hegelian Dialectic
The Concert System Sturm and Drang/ "Storm and Stress"
Congress of Aix-La-Chappelle Romanticism
Congresses of Troppau/ Laibach/ Verona Heinrich Heine
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies/ Spanish Revolt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Monroe Doctrine Promethean Myth/ Napoleonic Ideal
George Canning/ "Splendid Isolationism" Friedrich von Schiller
Greek Independence Movement William Wordsworth/ Samuel Coleridge
Treaties of Adrianople and London Lord Byron
Belgian Independence/ Neutrality Act of 1829 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Conservatism/ Metternich/ Burke/ de Maistre/ Pope Pius IX John Keats
Adam Smith/ The Wealth of Nations (1776) William Blake
Thomas Malthus/ David Ricardo Sir Walter Scott
Modern Liberalism/ Classical Liberalism Victor Hugo
John Stuart Mill/ Jeremy Bentham Alexandre Dumas
Utilitarianism Alexander Pushkin
Nationalism/ Jacob Fichte/ Johann Herder/ G.W.F. Hegel/ Frantisek Palacky/ Jules Michelet Eugene Delacroix
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Theodore Gericault
Francisco Goya Daniel O'Connell/ Thomas Osborne Davis/ Charles Stewart Parnell/ The Repeal Association/ Fenianism/ Catholic Emancipation Act (1829)
George Sand Constitutional Charter of 1814/ King Louis XVIII
Ludwig von Beethoven/ Wolfgang von Mozart/ Richard Wagner/ Giuseppe Verdi/ Franz Liszt/ Frederic Chopin Ultra-Royalists
John Constable/ J.M.W. Turner Chamber of Peers/ Chamber of Deputies
Tories/ Whigs Charles X/ Prince of Polignac
Duke of Wellington July Revolution
Corn Laws Louis Phillippe/ July Monarchy
Peterloo Massacre/ Cato Street Conpiracy Francois Guizot
"Six Acts" Revolutions of 1848
Robert Peel/ "Bobbies"/ John Howard February Revolution/ (France)
Reform Bill of 1832/ "Rotten Boroughs" The Second Republic
Earl Grey Louis Blanc/ Workshops
Repeal of Corn Laws (1846) June Days Revolt
Anti-Corn Law League/ Richard Cobden and John Bright General Louis Cavaignac
Irish Potato Famine / Genocide Franz Joseph
Ten Hours Act of 1847 Frederick William IV
Ulster Frankfurt Assembly
William Cobbett Schleswig and Holstein
Chartism "Grossdeutsch and Kleindeutsch"
Ulster "Crown from the Gutter"/ Humiliation at Olmutz
Robot Jose de San Martin/ Simon Bolivar/ Gran Columbia
Marshal Alfred von Windishgratz Augustine de Iturbide
Joseph Radetsky/ Battle of Custozza Dom Pedro I and II
Guiseppe Garibaldi  
Touissant L'Ouverture/J.J. Dessalines/ Haitian Revolt  

 

Chapter 24
Taming the City Voix des Femmes
King Cholera Theodore Herzl/ Zionism/ Marcus Garvey
Baron Georges Haussman Realism
Edwin Chadwick/ "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population" Emile Zola
Miasmatic Theory of Disease Honore de Balzac/ Gustave Flaubert
Louis Pasteur George Eliot/ Charles Dickens/Thomas Hardy
Robert Koch/ Joseph Lister/ Bacterial Revolution Henrik Ibsen
Zoning Expropriation Laws Fyodor Dostoyevksy/Leo Tolstoy/Anton Chekov/ Ivan Turgenev
The Urban Elite Theodore Dreiser
Labor Aristocracy Realism in the Arts/ Courbet/ Manet/ American Artists
Samuel Smiles Impressionism/ Post-Impressionism
Dmitri Mendelev/ Michael Faraday  
Auguste Compte/ System of Positive Philosophy  
The Triumph of Science  
Charles Darwin/ On Origins of Species/ The Descent of Man  
Thomas Huxley/ Darwin's Bulldog/ Evolution and Ethics  
David Friedrich Strauss/ Ernest Renan/ The Life of Jesus  
Pope Pius IX / Syllabus of Errors/  Pope Leo XIII/ Rerum Novarum  
Herbert Spencer/ Social Darwinism  
Count Arthur de Gobineau/ Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races  
H.S. Chamberlain/ Foundations of the 19th Century  
Hermann Ahlwardt/Eduard Drumont/ The Kishinev Pogrom (1903)/  
Emmeline Pankhurts/ W.S.P.U.  
Cat and Mouse Act  
Emily Davidson/ Derby Day  

 

Chapter 25
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte King Wilhelm I Tsar Nicholas II
Napoleonic Ideas/ The Elimination of Poverty Annexation of Alsace and Lorraine/ Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) October Manifesto/ Fundamental Laws
Italian Unification "Modernization of Russia" Peter Stolypin/ Agrarian Reform Act of 1906
Guiseppe Mazzini Tsar Alexander I Duma
Pope Pius IX/ Syllabus of Errors Decembrist Revolt (1825) Kulturkampf
Camillo Cavour Tsar Nicholas I Reichstag/ Bundesrat
Sardinia-Piedmont Sergei Uvarov/ "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationalism" Antisocialist Law of 1878
Victor Emmanuel II/ House of Savoy Organic Statute/ Suppression of Polish Revolt (1830) Catholic Center Party
Guiseppe Garibaldi/ "Red Shirts" Westernizers and Slavophiles Bismarck's Social Legislation
The Dis of 1859/ Peace of Villafranca Alexander Herzen/ Kolokol Kaiser Wilhelm II
German Unification Mikhail Bakunin/ Anarchism/ Nihilism Weltpolitik
Otto von Bismarck Crimean War (Treaty of Paris, 1856)