Enlightment Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. Government is there for people, and the protection of natural rights: Life, Liberty, and Property.
  2. 5. a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799, it sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
  3. 7. an epic political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain's North American colonies rejected its imperial rule.
  4. 8. promised the protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and, most importantly, limitations on taxation and other feudal payments to the Crown, with certain forms of feudal taxation requiring baronial consent.
  5. 12. was Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
  6. 14. The Bill that firmly established the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections, and freedom of speech within Parliament.
  7. 16. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
  8. 17. a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
  9. 18. a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
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  1. 1. the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters.
  2. 2. a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.
  3. 3. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point.
  4. 6. also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
  5. 9. when certain cultural values, ideas, or even cultures are adopted by different cultures.
  6. 10. the principal source of the theory of separation of powers.
  7. 11. the first to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn.
  8. 13. Absolutism, one strong ruler is necessary, said humans are naturally selfish without government.
  9. 15. a strong-willed ruler who was determined to make his subjects obey him and to make his kingdom the predominant power in Europe.