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Enlightenment Terms

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






2. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






3. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






6. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






16. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






21. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Restricting access to ideas and information