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Enlightenment Terms

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1. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world






2. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






3. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






4. A system of government in which a small group holds power






5. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






6. Rule or law that governs human nature






7. Restricting access to ideas and information






8. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






9. Restricting access to ideas and information






10. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






11. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






12. Rule or law that governs human nature






13. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony






14. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






15. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)






16. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






17. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






18. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






19. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






20. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






21. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






22. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






23. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)






24. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






25. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






26. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






27. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






28. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world






29. A system of government in which a small group holds power






30. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






31. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






32. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






33. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






34. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






35. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)






36. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






37. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






38. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony






39. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






40. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)