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Enlightenment Terms

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1. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






7. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






12. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






25. Restricting access to ideas and information






26. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






27. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






33. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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