AP European History

1 st Semester Final FRQs

Chapters 12-19

Select from the following:

1. What major social changes occurred during the Renaissance?

2. What was humanism, and what effect did it have on philosophy,

education,
attitude toward politics, and the writing of history?
3. What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on society in the
sixteenth
century?

4. What role did politics, economic and social conditions and religion play in
the
European wars of the sixteenth century?

5. Why did Europeans begin to embark on voyages of discovery and

expansion at
the end of the fifteenth century?
6. What was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?
7. What economic, social, and political crises did Europe experience ill the first
half
of the seventeenth century?

8. What was absolutism in theory and how did its actual practice in France
reflect or
differ from the theory?
9. What did Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton contribute to a new vision
of the universe?
10. What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?
11. How were the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread, and what impact did
they
have on society and religion?
12. What intellectual developments led to the emergence of the Enlightenment?
Who
were the leading figures of the Enlightenment, and what were their main
contributions?
13. What is the relationship between the Scientific Revolution
and the
Enlightenment?
14. What do historians mean by the term enlightened absolutism, and to what
degree
did eighteenth-century Prussia, Austria, and Russia exhibit its characteristics?
15. What were the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?

16. What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799?