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- 3. belief that the sun is the center of the universe
- 6. to know
- 10. one who thinks about, questions, and studies the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters
- 11. system of government where king of queen has absolute control
- 12. social gatherings in which Enlightenment ideas spread
- 13. French word for thinker
- 16. a period of time in Western Europe when people began to turn away from accepted beliefs and to reason
- 17. logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
- 18. French Enlightenment thinker who believed that to keep one person from gaining too much power a government should be separated into three branches: judicial, legislative, and executive
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- 1. (mid-1600s to late 1700s) a period of time in Western Europe when philosophers and writers applied the scientific idea of reason to answer political questions; sometimes known as the Age of Reason
- 2. monarch who embraced Enlightenment ideas
- 4. an enlightened despot who ruled Russia from 1792-1796; did not institute reforms due to serf uprising
- 5. English writer and philosopher who was an advocate for women's rights
- 7. developed the heliocentric theory and published his findings on his deathbed to avoid punishment from the Catholic Church
- 8. believed in the Social Contract and that the role of government is to establish stability; the best form of government is an absolute monarch
- 9. created a large set of books called the Encyclopedia
- 14. an agreement in which we promise to follow the "general will" of the members of society expressed by the laws made by the government and in exchange we receive the liberty to do what we want as long as we do not break those laws
- 15. Enlightenment thinker who believed that the role of government is to protect people's natural rights and that government get its right to rule from the consent of the governed