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| Introduction | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| Systematic Methods for Studying History | |
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| How to Recognize the Logical Order of History Materials | |
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| How to Pre-read | |
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| How to "Frame the Big Picture" | |
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| How to Read the Text | |
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| Sample Reading with Underlining, Accompanying Notes, Brief Outline | |
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| Summary for How to Read History Material | |
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| How to Connect Events by Using Chronology | |
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| A Guide to the Advanced Placement Examination in European History | |
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| Multiple-Choice Questions | |
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| Free-Response Section | |
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| Interpreting the Essay Questions: The Document-Based Essay Question (DBQ) | |
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| Thematic Essay Question | |
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| How to Write an Essay | |
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| Review Section | |
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| The Italian Renaissance, The Northern Renaissance (1450-1550) | |
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| Protestant Reformation, Catholic and Counter-Reformations, Wars of Religion (1517-1648) | |
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| The Growth of Nation-States: France and England, a Contrast in Governments | |
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| The Development of Modern Science and the Englightenment | |
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| The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna | |
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| Mercantilism and the Rise of Capitalism; The Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Growth and Suppression of Democracy from the Age of Metternich to the First World War (1815-1914) | |
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| The Unification of Italy, 1861; the Unification of Germany, 1871 | |
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| Imperialism (1870-1914) | |
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| World War I (1914-1918) | |
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| The Russian Revolution and Communism in Russia (1917-1939) | |
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| Democracy, Depression, Dictatorship, Aggression, (1919-1939) | |
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| World War II and Its Aftermath (1939-1953) | |
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| Postwar Europe: Recovery, Communism, and Cold War (1945-1970) | |
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| Trends in Contemporary Europe | |
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| A Model Advanced Placement Examination in European History | |
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| Questions, answers, analyses, and explanations | |