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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Rule or law that governs human nature






8. Restricting access to ideas and information






9. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Rule or law that governs human nature






18. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world






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






30. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






32. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






33. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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