The following are FRQs that have shown up on previous AP Tests. Look over the list. What do you already feel strong about? What things might you need to spend more time on/have questions about?

  1. Analyze the differences between the political ideals expressed in the visual arts of the Renaissance(fifteenth–sixteenth centuries) and the political ideals expressed in the visual arts of the Neoclassical/Romantic period (eighteenth–nineteenth centuries).
  1. Analyze the differences between the motives that shaped European colonial expansion in the period 1450–1750 and the motives that shaped European colonial expansion in the period 1850–1914.
  1. Analyze the differences between the impact of Newtonian physics on European culture and the impact ofDarwinian biology on European culture.
  1. Assess the ways in which women participated in and influenced TWO of thefollowing.

•The Renaissance

•The Reformation

•The French Revolution

  1. Analyze the development of the various forms of European socialism in the 1800s.
  1. Compare and contrast the economic factors responsible for the decline of Spain withthe economic factors responsible for the decline of the Dutch Republic by the end ofthe seventeenth century.
  1. Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented aturning point in European history.
  1. Analyze the impact of the major developments of the Commercial Revolution onEurope’s economy and society in the period 1650 to 1789.(Think Atlantic Economy, cottage industry, (very) early factories)
  1. Analyze artistic and literary responses to industrialization over the course of thenineteenth century.
  1. Compare and contrast the crises in state authority that precipitated the FrenchRevolution in 1789 and the February and October Revolutions in Russia in 1917.
  1. Considering the period 1953-1991, analyze the problems within the Soviet Union that led to the eventual collapse of the Soviet system.
  1. Analyze the methods and degrees of success of Russian political and social reformfrom the period of Peter the Great (1689–1725) through Catherine the Great(1762–1796).
  1. Describe and analyze the changes that led to Europe’s rapid population growth in theeighteenth century.
  1. Analyze the reasons for the decline of the Holy Roman Empire as a force in Europeanpolitics in the period 1517 to 1648.
  1. Contrast late-nineteenth-century European attitudes and policies about race to thoseafter 1950.
  1. 16. Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following groups challenged British liberalismbetween 1880 and 1914.

Feminists(remember – they wanted voting rights)

Irish nationalists(remember – they wanted independence)

Socialists

17. Analyze the similarities and differences in the methods used by Cavour and Bismarck to bring about the unification of Italy and of Germany, respectively.