5 Steps to a 5TM AP European History

(^52) › STEP 4. Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
• What events or ideas made possibility, potential, freedom, individuality, and respon-
sibility important? What did these elements make possible? How, for example, might
Renaissance thought have influenced exploration, discovery, and settlement of new
worlds?
• What is the role of the arts in reference to either instigating change or reflecting contem-
porary issues and manners? Were the arts idealistic or realistic? In other words, what is
the purpose of the arts at any given moment?
• How did the power or status of the individual change over time? How did merchants
become a dominant power during the Renaissance? How did women seek to define
themselves within the confines of a changing society? What was the role of demographic
shifts in these changes?
History is more than a linear chronology. It is a consideration of causes and effects, of
connections, of changes, adaptations, and innovations over time. History is time.
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