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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






4. Rule or law that governs human nature






5. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Rule or law that governs human nature






11. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






39. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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