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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






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






5. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






9. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






12. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






15. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






20. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






24. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






27. Restricting access to ideas and information






28. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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