<p>I'm trying to decide which is more easy or more bearable (I hate history but I want to have 4 year experiences with all major subjects). I want an honest opinoin from people that have taking any of the classes. Me personally I have a bad opinion of European History since I took World history my freshmen year. I found the early European histories about renesance ( i don't know how to spell it) to be very boring. There was too many important people to remember. For U.S. History that I took my sophomore year I found the early part about the arrival and founding of America to be also boring.
So please give me your opinion or advice about any of the classes if you have had any experiences with them.</p>
<p>APUSH is the hardest AP you can take. I took it and really regretted it because I HATED it, and I like history.</p>
<p>Take AP Euro.</p>
<p>Take euro. It's more interesting and easier.</p>
<p>Both subjects are generally about later time periods than those you listed; US barely touches on the colonies, and Euro begins largely <em>after</em> the renaissance. </p>
<p>Look at some colleges' websites to see if their credit policies differ (my school, for example, offers us and euro credit but not world history)</p>
<p>...we focused a lot on the colonies in my APUSH class.</p>
<p>^Yeah, we did, too. I suppose it depends on what your teacher decides to focus on. My teacher wanted us to understand the cultural/economic roots of the country, and how they influenced its development.</p>
<p>APUSH is definitely the more intense of the two classes. At my school, at least, European History isn't really taught like an AP class. It's the class for seniors who don't HAVE to take a history course, but are interested nonetheless in the subject.</p>
<p>I personally love both European and American history for different reasons. As far as which class you should take, I haven't taken AP Euro or APUSH yet. I'm taking Euro this year, and APUSH next year, but I've heard that APUSH is the most difficult of the two, and probably the most difficult AP history course out there. Based on that, I'd reccomend AP Euro to you, since you don't like history much to begin with. </p>
<p>But, based on the fact that you've already taken AP World, I'm going to have to tell you to take APUSH. As far as I know, World is pretty similar to Euro, and you would seem just a tiny bit more well-rounded if you spent a year with American History.</p>
<p>AP Euro without question... maybe I'm biased, but European history (to me) is much richer in culture and scope. Plus, you haven't heard these stories a thousand times. You also learn how the US affects/fits into Europe's history.</p>
<p>AP Euro is a joke compared to AP US, and the exam is a lot easier.</p>
<p>US is so boring....
im taking euro this year and it looks so much more interesting</p>
<p>Well I think the best way to decide is to ask from experienced people from your school, as teachers largely determine the curriculum. Some teachers tend to be more laxed, and others are more geared toward a forced-you-to-learn method (to the extent where one can make the assumption of a higher pay for higher score conspiracy).</p>
<p>As I have taken both, I agree with what most of us are saying, but experiences widely differ. APUSH is the hardest AP course I have ever taken, hands down (but I have not taking Physics or Chem); but I think the reason for this is that my teacher was a force-you-to-learn type, and we had a lot of work. However, for me, even though I'm not a history person, I, as well as most of my peers, perceive US history to be a more interesting course, especially because the material is actually pertinent in life. (For watching old movies, you will be able to understand the Bay of Pigs Event.)</p>
<p>AP European History, for my teacher anyway, was a joke. The weekly reading was not mandatory for an A in my class(trust me on this one), and 70% of the class got an A. Arguably, it was my easiest AP course with one of the least work. But it was also terribly boring for me. Learning about the House of yadaya or Oliver Cromwell did not appeal to me, and I have completely forgot everything (largely a result of the fact that I didn't read). As a result, I thought the AP Exam was much harder--cramming the whole book only produced a 4 on the test, but I easily got a 5 on US history by only reviewing a little.</p>
<p>To summarize, from my experience I would take AP Euro. Boring Material but easy courseload as opposed to APUSH's somewhat interesting material but heavy, ridiculously intense memorization work. Also, if you plan on taking the SAT II's, I think APUSH would be more beneficial because last I checked the closest was World History?</p>
<p>^That is a good point, and I do remember and understand a lot more stuff now.</p>
<p>Like I was watching Gilmore Girls with a bunch of friends, and Lorelai said something to the effect of:</p>
<p>"Oh, great idea! Bay of Pigs, was that yours too?"</p>
<p>And the only ones that laughed were the ones that had taken APUSH. XD it was kinda weird.</p>
<p>depends on your teacher...and what you had before, like I wouldn't want to repeat something I've already had and most people probably had us hist in middle school so it'll be boring to go over the same thing.</p>
<p>Depends on the school and the teacher. Since you've already taken World History, you might want to go for AP U.S. History.</p>
<p>renaissance + enlighment was super boring but medieval + ancient euro hist was rather interesting, also wwI and WWII, though two horrible events, beats the civil war out of the water</p>
<p>i dont know why people say ap us was difficult. i thought was easy, you just have to really know the material.</p>