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Enlightenment Terms

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






10. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






12. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






14. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Restricting access to ideas and information






24. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






29. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






31. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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