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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






3. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






22. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






25. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






30. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






32. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






37. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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