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Enlightenment Terms

Subject : history
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1. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






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






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






4. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






5. 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






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






7. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






26. Restricting access to ideas and information






27. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






29. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






32. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. Rule or law that governs human nature






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