AP European History Review Jeopardy

A free AP Euro review board running from the Renaissance to the European Union. Put it on the projector and let students buzz in from their phones.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Renaissance and Reformation

$200
In 1517 this German monk wrote his Ninety-five Theses attacking the sale of indulgences.
Who is Martin Luther?
$400
This Florentine diplomat wrote The Prince, advising rulers that it is safer to be feared than loved.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
$600
This 1555 settlement let each prince in the Holy Roman Empire choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for his lands.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
$800
Meeting on and off from 1545 to 1563, this church council defined Catholic doctrine in answer to the Protestants.
What is the Council of Trent?
$1,000
This Dutch humanist wrote The Praise of Folly and published a new Greek edition of the New Testament.
Who is Erasmus?

Absolutism and Religious Wars

$200
This French king, known as the Sun King, moved his court to Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
$400
In 1588 England defeated this great fleet sent by Philip II.
What is the Spanish Armada?
$600
Issued by Henry IV in 1598, this decree granted French Huguenots a measure of religious toleration.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
$800
This Russian tsar founded a new capital on the Baltic in 1703 as a window on the West.
Who is Peter the Great?
$1,000
In this 1618 incident, Protestant nobles threw imperial officials out of a window of Prague Castle.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?

Science and Enlightenment

$200
This Polish astronomer's 1543 book placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
$400
This Italian scientist was tried by the Roman Inquisition in 1633 for defending the heliocentric view.
Who is Galileo?
$600
This English philosopher's Two Treatises of Government argued for natural rights to life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
$800
In The Spirit of the Laws, this French thinker argued for separating the powers of government.
Who is Montesquieu?
$1,000
Rousseau's 1762 treatise with this title opens by saying man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
What is The Social Contract?

Revolutions and Nationalism

$200
On 14 July 1789, Parisian crowds stormed this royal fortress and prison.
What is the Bastille?
$400
This Prussian minister-president unified Germany through what he called blood and iron.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
$600
Hosted by Metternich, this 1814 to 1815 gathering redrew the map of Europe after Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
$800
This leader of the Red Shirts conquered Sicily and Naples in 1860, helping to unify Italy.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
$1,000
This Jacobin dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror until his own execution in 1794.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?

Industry and Empire

$200
James Watt's improvements to this machine helped power the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
$400
These two German writers published The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
$600
An 1884 to 1885 conference hosted in this capital set rules for European claims to Africa.
What is Berlin?
$800
In 1846 Parliament repealed these tariffs on imported grain, a victory for free trade.
What are the Corn Laws?
$1,000
This Belgian king ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession, with brutal forced labor.
Who is Leopold II?

Twentieth-Century Europe

$200
The 1914 assassination of this Austrian archduke in Sarajevo set off World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
$400
This 1919 treaty with Germany included a clause assigning it responsibility for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
$600
This 1938 agreement allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Agreement?
$800
Proposed in 1947, this US program provided billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
$1,000
Signed in 1992 in a Dutch city, this treaty created the European Union.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?

Final Jeopardy — Ending a War

Signed in 1648, this set of treaties ended the Thirty Years' War and is often cited as the foundation of the modern system of sovereign states.

What is the Peace of Westphalia?

How to run this board

Six columns cover the AP Euro timeline: the Renaissance and Reformation, absolutism and the wars of religion, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, revolutions and nationalism, industrialization and imperialism, and the world wars through European integration.

Each column maps onto a stretch of the course, so a column the class keeps missing tells you where to spend the next review session.

A house rule worth adopting: a correct answer earns a bonus if the team can name the period it falls in. Chronology and periodization are what the long essay rewards, and the game makes students practice them out loud.

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