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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






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






4. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






6. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Rule or law that governs human nature






14. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






17. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






27. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






29. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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