AP Euro Study Guide*

The Holy Roman Empire: A poorly run country that ended up falling apart, which is a shame since it had a really cool name.

Prussia: Pretty much the same as the Holy Roman Empire with a lamer name.

Peasants: A large group of people, comprising up to 95% of the population in some nations. Unfortunately, the only things they ever seem to do is grow wheat and die.

Bismarck: Total prick.

Socialism: The idea that resources should be shared more equally so as to create lower extremes of wealth and poverty, which sounds like a great idea until you realize that one of the founders of socialism also thought the seas would turn into lemonade. So, yeah, it’ll never work.

World War One: A long, incredibly violent and bloody war in which little to nothing was gained by either side, fought over relatively petty disputes between nations. After the war it was assumed by the survivors that the concept war was so pointless that no war would ever be fought again.

World War Two: Living proof that people never learn

Spoken word poetry: Never mentioned in the entire AP Euro course, so it can’t be that important.

Spider Man: Also never mentioned, which is sad since he could have totally won much any of the wars in five minutes or so.

Machiavelli: Speaking of Spider Man, it would have been so cool if  he and Machiavelli had duked it out, since Machiavelli was basically a super villain.

Newton’s Laws of Gravity: A relatively minor scientific advancement that for some reason spurred people to automatically assume that everything on earth and the universe was perfectly logical and rational.

Fairies: Small female humanoids with wings who peasants were scared of for some reason.

Joseph Stalin: There’s another guy who Spider Man could have fought.

Yellow Journalism: Awesome.

How Many Angels Could Dance on the Head of a Pin?: A question long debated by scholastic medivial monks. The quest for the answer was abandoned around the beginning of the Renisance, five minutes before they would have found out the answer was eight.

The Americas: Introduced in unit 1 when Columbus found it, immediately forgotten until we totally saved Europe in World War II.