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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






13. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Restricting access to ideas and information






19. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






33. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






37. Rule or law that governs human nature






38. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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