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Enlightenment Terms

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






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. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






15. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






29. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






30. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






40. Rule or law that governs human nature