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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Rule or law that governs human nature






15. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Restricting access to ideas and information






27. Rule or law that governs human nature






28. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






34. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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