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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






4. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






7. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






8. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






12. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






18. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






34. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






36. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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