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






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






4. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






7. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






12. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






17. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






18. 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






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






20. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






26. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






37. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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