Enlightenment and Renaissance

3. doing what is best for the state and society
4. thought people were bad by nature.
6. Thought that men and women would be equal if women were given education
8. The idea that certain restrictions should be placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens.
11. not slaves but were tied to the land
13. A form of democracy in which the people as a whole make direct decisions on laws and policies, rather than having those decisions made for them by elected representatives
15. Government power comes from the will of the people or the consent of the governed.
16. Marked by a gradual shift from the abstract forms of the medieval period to the representational forms of the 15th century
17. policymaking institutions are influenced based on the wealthy and powerful.

1. looking down or treating others different because of wealth
2. man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
5. Typical military confrontation in medieval times was for one side to mount an attack on opponent's castle.
7. centralization in the Middle Ages was defined by a decentralized government based on the system of land as reward for loyalty
8. Thought people were good by nature.
9. One major problem with taking a castle by storm – collapsing a tower by knocking a whole into the walls.
10. transition from medieval to modern society
12. The rights that people are born with and can never give up.
14. power to keep other parts of government in order