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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Restricting access to ideas and information






9. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






11. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






20. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






24. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






27. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






31. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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