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Unit 1 The Late Middle Ages & the Renaissance c. 1300 – 1550 From scholastic piety to humanist ambition; feudal fragmentation to nation-states and the Atlantic world. 25vocab37IDs9MCQs4SAQs5DBQ docs Unit 2 Reformation & Wars of Religion c. 1517 – 1648 Luther's doctrinal revolt becomes a political revolution; Christendom shatters and new states emerge from a century of religious war. 28vocab37IDs9MCQs4SAQs5DBQ docs Unit 3 Absolutism & Constitutionalism c. 1648 – 1815 Two paths out of religious chaos: Louis XIV's divine-right state and the constitutional England of 1688. 29vocab37IDs10MCQs4SAQs5DBQ docs Unit 4 Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment c. 1543 – 1789 From Copernicus to Kant: how observation, mathematics, and reason rewrote the European mind. 30vocab34IDs10MCQs4SAQs8DBQ docs Unit 5 The French Revolution & Napoleon 1789 – 1815 From the Tennis Court Oath to Waterloo: liberty, terror, empire, and Romanticism. 31vocab42IDs10MCQs4SAQs8DBQ docs Unit 6 Industrialization & Its Discontents c. 1750 – 1914 From the spinning jenny to the welfare state: how steam, steel, and ideas transformed European life. 34vocab40IDs10MCQs4SAQs7DBQ docs Unit 7 Nationalism, Imperialism & Modern Thought c. 1815 – 1914 Italy and Germany unify, Europe carves up Africa, and Darwin and Freud overturn the Enlightenment self. 29vocab39IDs10MCQs4SAQs7DBQ docs Unit 8 World Wars & Totalitarianism 1914 – 1945 From Sarajevo to Auschwitz: total war, revolution, depression, and the most catastrophic generation in European history. 39vocab43IDs10MCQs4SAQs8DBQ docs Unit 9 Cold War & Contemporary Europe 1945 – present From the Iron Curtain to the European Union: division, decolonization, integration, and the post-Cold War world. 32vocab40IDs10MCQs4SAQs6DBQ docs

TOTALSBy the Numbers

Everything across all 9 units, mapped to the actual AP exam weighting.

277

Vocabulary Flashcards

349

Identification Cards

246

Timeline Events

Learning Objectives

MCQs (40% of exam)

SAQ Parts (20% of exam)

DBQ Documents (25% of exam)

LEQ Prompts (15% of exam)

Primary Sources

Common Pitfalls

COVERAGEUnit-by-Unit Breakdown

Unit	Vocab	IDs	Timeline	MCQs	SAQs	DBQ docs	LEQs	Sources	Pitfalls
1. Middle Ages & Renaissance	25	37	26	9	4	5	2	8	10
2. Reformation	28	37	25	9	4	5	2	8	10
3. Absolutism	29	37	28	10	4	5	2	8	10
4. Sci. Rev. & Enlightenment	30	34	22	10	4	8	2	8	10
5. French Revolution	31	42	24	10	4	8	2	8	10
6. Industrialization	34	40	28	10	4	7	2	8	10
7. Nationalism & Imperialism	29	39	27	10	4	7	2	8	10
8. World Wars	39	43	32	10	4	8	2	8	10
9. Cold War & Contemporary	32	40	34	10	4	6	2	8	10
Total	277	349	246	88	36	59	18	72	90

STRATEGYHow to Use These Guides

Vocab First

Flip flashcards until you can define every term cold. Mark cards as "known" — your progress is saved in your browser.

IDs Second

Click each identification card and try to recall Who / What / When / Where / Why before expanding. Star the ones you miss.

MCQs for the 40%

Multiple-choice is the biggest exam section. Read the stimulus carefully before the question. AP distractors are plausible — the explanations show you the trap.

Write SAQs Before Revealing

Cover the model answer, write your own first (Answer + Cite evidence + Explain). Then compare. The scoring notes tell you exactly what earns vs. fails each point.

DBQ: Practice HIPP

For each document, identify Historical situation, Intended audience, Point of view, and Purpose before clicking "Show HIPP." Sourcing two docs earns a rubric point.

LEQ: Thesis + Evidence + Complexity

Use the thesis templates as scaffolding, then build out with the evidence bank. The complexity move is where 4s become 5s.