The Enlightenment

3. developed the belief that tradition could and should be used to promote change.
5. of sedition or blasphemy quickly found themselves imprisoned.
6. were painfully aware that they were paying taxes.
8. there were ___________ at work in Europe.
10. the goal of the ________ humanists was to recapture some of the pride, breadth of spirit, and creativity of the ancient greek and romans.
11. whether pamphlets or scholary volumes were subject to prior censorship by both church and state, oftern working hand in hand.
14. ____ and communication improved during the renaissance.
15. in Italy and France a group of thinkers.
18. which tried to challenge the twin authorities of church and state banned.
19. their principal targets were ____
20. europeans were _______ but europes institutions were not keeping pace with that change.

1. it was among those very idle ______ that the french enlightenment philosophers were to find some of their earliest and most enthusiastic follwers.
2. and catholics denounced each other as followers of satan.
4. sooner or later many eurppeans would begin to weary of the _______ and warfare carried out in the name of the absolute truth.
7. the earth rotates on its axis beneath the unmoving sun.
9. frequently refered to as "doctors'.
12. begun to move from rural estates to the towns in search of increased freedom and prosperity.
13. the despotism of ______ exercising far greater powers than any medieval king.
16. was torn by which-hunts and wars of religion, and imperial conquest.
17. moved easily in these aristocratic circles.