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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






3. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






8. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






25. Restricting access to ideas and information






26. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






35. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






37. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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