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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






3. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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 system of government in which a small group holds power






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






9. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






31. 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






32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






33. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






35. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






39. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






40. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth