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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. Rule or law that governs human nature






3. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






9. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






26. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






29. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






34. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth