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Enlightenment Terms

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






2. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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 government whose power is defined and limited by law






8. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






11. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






13. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






37. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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