The Albert Team 
The 89 years between the commencement of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in 1559 and the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648 were marred by true holy wars. The last truly dynastic war of the 1500s, the Hapsburg-Valois Wars, ended in 1559 and made way for a series of conflicts fought in a large part over religion.
If you are an AP® European History student, you should use the College Board’s AP® European History Course and Exam Description as a guide for your AP® Euro review. We looked at it and determined that one of the most important topics you should include in your AP® Euro review for the AP® European History test is the Industrial Revolution.
We look at population through double lenses of space and place. Human populations have moved and settled in a variety of locations over a long period of time. That movement or migration raises several questions. What makes up a population?
You may not have realized it, but we live in a world defined by globalization. Whether you’ve been listening to the British artist Adele, watching a soccer match taking place in South Africa, or using a blender that was made in Singapore, you have been taking part in a widespread and complex global system. It has become such an integral part of our lives that we hardly think about how this system came to be and what the historical consequences have been.
Enlightened Absolutism may come across as almost an oxymoronic term, and you wouldn’t be too far off assuming this. It was one of those bizarre instances of historical contradiction, where an era that was concerned with freedom and individual liberty crashed into one simultaneously obsessed with despotic rulers concerned with their absolutist political control. Oxymoronic or not, the AP® European History Exam loves to test on complicated topics such as this one.
If you’re reading about torque, you’ve probably already covered work, which measures a force applied that displaces an object in any direction on a Cartesian coordinate system (x/y coordinates). Now, what if we take that same object and rotate it around a fixed axis? When we do that, we are applying a torque on that object.
The Ideal Gas Law summarizes all of the various experiments in the 17th and 18th century that strove to define the relationships between the different properties of a gas. These relationships can all be explained by the ideal gas law. The ideal gas law is based on three critical assumptions.
The system of checks and balances is one that the United States has been founded as a method of decreasing corruption. This standard has been employed in other countries as well, with varying degrees of success as to that implementation. The AP® US Government exam will likely consider your understanding of what checks and balances are and how they relate to the entire system of government within the United States.
Deoxyribonucleic acid, fondly known as DNA, is a molecule in the shape of a double helix, which is responsible for storing genetic information in the cells of all living organisms. Most people know or should know this. But what is DNA made of exactly?
The APUSH Redesign (and the Re-Redesign that followed immediately this year) has brought a great deal of uncertainty, angst and confusion to many teachers. This is my eighth year teaching the course, and while I had certainly reached a comfort level with the traditional multiple-choice and free-response questions, I have come around to almost all of the aspects of the redesign.
In my opinion, the best addition to the test is the new short answer section, found in Section 1 of the exam (along with the stimulus multiple-choice questions). Last June, I was fortunate enough to attend the AP® US History Reading in Louisville Kentucky. For one week, I graded the same Short Answer Question over 3,500 times (for the record, I never want to read about John Adams or Benjamin Rush and their interpretation of the American Revolution again). While I certainly do not claim to be an expert, or have any “insider information” on the inner workings of the College Board, I am happy to share my insights and advice based on my experiences and conversations with colleagues.