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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






4. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






6. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






12. Rule or law that governs human nature






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






21. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






40. Restricting access to ideas and information