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Enlightenment Terms

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






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






3. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






29. Restricting access to ideas and information






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






31. 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






32. Rule or law that governs human nature






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






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






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






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






37. Rule or law that governs human nature






38. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






39. Restricting access to ideas and information






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