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Enlightenment Terms

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1. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






18. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






39. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






40. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God