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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






14. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






16. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






18. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






20. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






23. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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