1. Describe and explain significant continuities and changes in the attitudes and experiences of European women from the Reformation through the Enlightenment.

2. Describe and explain significant continuities and changes in the attitudes and experiences of European women from the First World War to the Cold War.

3. Analyze whether or not the revolutions of 1848 can be considered a turning point in European Political and social history.

4. Analyze whether or not the collapse of communism ( ) can be considered a turning point in European economic and political history.

5. Analyze how the marginalization of one of the following groups has changed or remained the same over the course of European History from 1450 to the present Religious Minorities in Europe Non-European indigenous populations in the Americas, Asia and Africa Europeans with low socio –economic status

6. 1400s -1500s – Renaissance
1500s-1600s – Reformation
Mid 1600s – 1789 – Age of Absolutism
– Age of Revolutions, COV
– Rise of Nation States
1890s – Imperialism
– WWI
1920s and 1930s Age of Anxiety

7. PSE of 19th Century

8. Analyze cause and effect: how does each time period lead to the next
Analyze cause and effect: how does each time period lead to the next? Think PSE
Northern Renaissance  Protestant Reformation Era of Religious Wars  Age of Absolutism Agricultural Revolution  Population Explosion Atlantic Economy  Rise of Consumer Culture/changes in middle class Agricultural Revolution  Industrial Revolution Enlightenment  French Revolution French Revolution  Napoleonic Era Napoleonic Era  1848 Revolutions 1848 Revolutions  Rise of the Nation State