Understanding AP® Themes in Period Three

THEME ABBREVIATIONS

INT Interaction of Europe and the World
PP Poverty and Prosperity
OS Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
SP States and Other Institutions of Power
IS Individual and Society

  1. Why did the Industrial Revolution develop as it did? (INT, PP, SP, IS)

  2. How did industrialization shape European society, and how was its impact different for rich and poor, men and women, rural and urban dwellers? (PP, OS, IS)

  3. What competing ideologies regarding the best form of society and politics developed in the nineteenth century, and how did people act on these? (PP, OS, SP, IS)

  4. How was the political balance of power in Europe challenged by economic and social change and the development of new ideas, and how was it reinforced or modified? (PP, OS, SP)

  5. Why did European countries create or expand empires overseas in the nineteenth century? (INT, SP, IS)

  6. How did European culture reflect the uncertainties and upheavals of the long nineteenth century? (OS, IS)