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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






3. Restricting access to ideas and information






4. 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






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






6. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






10. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






22. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






29. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






35. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






38. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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