Topic 12: Absolutism, Enlightenment, & Revolutions

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Across
  1. 2. a European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society
  2. 3. a philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain
  3. 7. the period of Charles II's rule over England, after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell's government
  4. 9. the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
  5. 11. Enlightenment thinkers' belief that truth can be discovered through reason or logical thinking
  6. 13. landowning noble of Russia
  7. 17. a statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain
  8. 18. the agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government
  9. 19. French government official appointed by the monarch to collect taxes and administer justice
  10. 21. an adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western—especially European or American—countries.
  11. 23. a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses
  12. 24. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' basic rights and freedoms
  13. 26. the bloodless overthrow of the English king James II and his replacement by William and Mary
  14. 27. a social gathering of intellectuals and artists held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment
  15. 28. measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others
Down
  1. 1. the earth-centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe
  2. 4. one of the European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects
  3. 5. king or queen who had unlimited power and tried to control all aspects of society
  4. 6. one of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment
  5. 8. the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
  6. 10. a document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that it can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal
  7. 12. relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s
  8. 14. a system of governing in which a ruler's power is limited by law
  9. 15. a person during the Enlightenment who believed that God created the universe and then allowed it to run by itself following natural laws
  10. 16. the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
  11. 20. a group of advisers or ministers chosen by the head of a country to help make government decisions
  12. 22. a system of government in which power is divided between central authority and a number of individual states
  13. 25. relating to a simple, elegant style that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s