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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






14. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






16. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






18. Restricting access to ideas and information






19. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






21. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






27. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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