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






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






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






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






6. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






12. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






15. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






29. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






30. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






34. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






37. 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






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






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