Enlightenment

4. He championed the freedom of the individual and the notion that all people were equal.
9. Social gatherings for discussing ideas and enjoying art.
10. New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
14. Style in arts and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s.
16. A system of government where power is divided between national and state governments.
18. French philosopher who believed in tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.
19. The logical procedure for gathering information and testing ideas.
20. The idea that God created the universe and then allowed it to run on its own following natural laws.
23. English scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity.
24. The idea that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
26. Italian scientist who invented the first working telescope.

1. French philosopher who explored democratic theories of government and proposed a government divided into three branches.
2. The 18th-century European movement applying reason and the scientific method to society.
3. First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
5. The English writer who protested the unequal relationship between man and woman in marriage.
6. Agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, creating an organised society.
7. Monarchs who were inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule fairly and respect the rights of subjects.
8. The French and Indian war led Parliament to tax the colonists, who responded with a.
11. A new, elegant style of painting and architecture that borrowed themes from ancient Greece and Rome.
12. Thinker who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
13. The Czarina of Russia who took steps to reform and modernise Russia.
15. A system in which each branch of government limits the power of the other two branches.
17. Intellectual movement that tried to apply reason and the scientific method to laws that shaped human actions.
21. Thinkers during the Enlightenment who applied reason to all aspects of society.
22. Document declaring American independence from Britain.
25. According to this person, people have three natural rights: life, liberty and property.