Unit 7 Essential Questions

1. What impact do regional and global trade networks have on regional cultures?
   
   
2. How does technological change impact people, places and regions?

Unit 7 Focus Questions

1. What factors led to the Renaissance renewal of interest in Greek and Roman studies?
   
   
2. Between the Medieval and Renaissance periods, what brought about the worldview shift from an religious to secular focus?
   
   
3. Who sponsored medieval and Renaissance art and literature?
   
   
4. What impact did the rise of capitalism have on the Renaissance?
   
   
5. In what way does humanism define the Renaissance?
   
   
6. How did art and literature of the time period help lead to a decline in the authority of the Roman Catholic Church?