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Enlightenment Terms
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Answer 40 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Oligarchy
Scientific Revolution
Frederick the Great reforms
Social Contract
2. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas
Natural Law
Absolute Monarch
Cabinet
Salon
3. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
Philosophe
Natural Law
Cabinet
Prime Minister
4. A government whose power is defined and limited by law
Constitutional Government
Oligarchy
Cabinet
Philosophe
5. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)
Cabinet
Oligarchy
Laissez Faire
Prime Minister
6. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos
Censorship
Salon
Divine Right
Social Contract
7. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas
Censorship
Salon
Natural Law
Frederick the Great reforms
8. 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
Enlightened Despot
Salon
Scientific Revolution
Catherine the Great reforms
9. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people
Absolute Monarch
Joseph II
Constitutional Government
Natural Right
10. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots
Spread of Enlightenment
Joseph II
Natural Right
Physiocrat
11. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God
Scientific Revolution
Censorship
Physiocrat
Divine Right
12. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos
Salon
Physiocrat
Social Contract
Absolute Monarch
13. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)
Joseph II
Catherine the Great reforms
Salon
Laissez Faire
14. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony
Cabinet
Censorship
Laissez Faire
Catherine the Great reforms
15. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth
Oligarchy
Natural Right
Divine Right
Salon
16. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)
Frederick the Great reforms
Cabinet
Scientific Revolution
Constitutional Government
17. A system of government in which a small group holds power
Physiocrat
Oligarchy
Scientific Revolution
Spread of Enlightenment
18. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
Scientific Revolution
Frederick the Great reforms
Oligarchy
Enlightened Despot
19. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God
Philosophe
Enlightened Despot
Divine Right
Physiocrat
20. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics
Laissez Faire
Scientific Revolution
Salon
Physiocrat
21. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics
Censorship
Physiocrat
Social Contract
Prime Minister
22. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots
Social Contract
Constitutional Government
Spread of Enlightenment
Cabinet
23. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people
Absolute Monarch
Laissez Faire
Social Contract
Catherine the Great reforms
24. Rule or law that governs human nature
Natural Law
Spread of Enlightenment
Joseph II
Divine Right
25. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth
Laissez Faire
Frederick the Great reforms
Prime Minister
Natural Right
26. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)
Cabinet
Scientific Revolution
Natural Law
Frederick the Great reforms
27. Restricting access to ideas and information
Oligarchy
Frederick the Great reforms
Enlightened Despot
Censorship
28. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony
Salon
Oligarchy
Laissez Faire
Natural Right
29. Rule or law that governs human nature
Enlightened Despot
Laissez Faire
Natural Law
Prime Minister
30. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)
Enlightened Despot
Laissez Faire
Catherine the Great reforms
Spread of Enlightenment
31. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
Laissez Faire
Absolute Monarch
Cabinet
Philosophe
32. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom
Joseph II
Frederick the Great reforms
Censorship
Philosophe
33. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)
Natural Right
Joseph II
Natural Law
Prime Minister
34. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)
Physiocrat
Cabinet
Catherine the Great reforms
Frederick the Great reforms
35. Restricting access to ideas and information
Prime Minister
Censorship
Enlightened Despot
Divine Right
36. A government whose power is defined and limited by law
Scientific Revolution
Catherine the Great reforms
Constitutional Government
Natural Right
37. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom
Joseph II
Scientific Revolution
Enlightened Despot
Oligarchy
38. A system of government in which a small group holds power
Censorship
Scientific Revolution
Oligarchy
Philosophe
39. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)
Frederick the Great reforms
Constitutional Government
Divine Right
Oligarchy
40. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
Enlightened Despot
Frederick the Great reforms
Joseph II
Physiocrat