Across
- 4. a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of the individual to solve problems, also known as the Age of Reason.
- 5. The Enlightenment idea that political power came from the people's consent to be lead.
- 7. what is natural is also good and reasonable
- 11. social critics of France
- 12. kings or queens who held all the political power within their states' boundary
Down
- 1. the political idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God's representative on earth, so the monarch was answerable only to God, not to his subjects
- 2. people hand over their rights to a strong ruler in exchange they gained law order. Hobbies believed that by this people formed a government.
- 3. stressed the idea that society and human kind could improve
- 6. Enlightenment thinkers believed that truth could be discovered through reason or logical thoughts
- 8. the philosophes rejected the medieval idea that people should seek joy in heaven and urged people to seek happiness on earth
- 9. the political belief that one ruler should hold all the power within the boundaries of a country
- 10. freedom of the individual and basic rights of man