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Enlightenment Terms

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






2. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. Restricting access to ideas and information






9. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






11. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






12. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






25. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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