AP FRQ Essays:
- Analyze the influence of humanism on the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. Use at least THREE specific works to support your analysis. (2004 A)
- Explain how advances in learning and technology influenced fifteenth- and sixteenth- century European exploration and trade. (2003 A)
- To what extent and in what ways did women participate in the Renaissance? (2003 B)
Other Potential Essays:
- Compare and contrast Catholicism, Calvinism, and Lutheranism
- Compare and contrast the northern and the southern renaissance
- To what extent and in what way may the Renaissance be regarded as a turning point in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition?
- Compare and contrast the cultural values of the Enlightenment with those of the 16th century Northern Renaissance.
- Compare and contrast the views of Machiavelli and Rousseau on human nature and the relationship between government and the governed.
- Describe and analyze the ways that the development of printing altered both the culture and politics of Europe during the period 1450-1600.
- Explain the ways that Renaissance humanism transformed ideas about the individual's role in society.
- To what extent is the term "Renaissance” a valid concept for a distinct period in early modern European History?
- To what extent and in what ways did women participate in the Renaissance?
