Renaissance Essential Questions
1. What causes the Renaissance to begin and how does Humanism influence the development of the Renaissance?
2. How does art evolve during the time of the Renaissance?
3. Who are some of the most influential artists and thinkers of the Renaissance?
4. Do Renaissance ideas still affect us today?
Reformation Essential Questions
1. What disagreements caused the Protestant Reformation?
2. How did the Catholic Church respond to the Protestant Reformation?
3. How effective was the Counter-Reformation in counteracting
the Protestant Reformation?
4. Was the Counter-Reformation largely positive or negative?
Exploration Essential Questions
1. How did Humanism influence the European Age of Exploration?
2. How did the Renaissance and Reformation lead to an “Age of Exploration?”
3. How did the process of colonization affect Europeans? Native
peoples?
4. What were the social and economic impacts of exploration on the people of each continent?