Across
- 1. this event helped spur on the Enlightenment
- 7. Diderot compiled human knowledge into this work
- 10. analyzed economic systems and believed in laissez-faire economics
- 11. demanded equal rights for women, especially in education
- 12. exciting time of optimism and possibility from the late 1600s to the late 1700s when reason was thought to solve problems of the human condition
- 13. the Enlightenment was also called this
- 16. Enlightenment ideas spread and caused reforms and also __
- 18. Locke thought the purpose of government was to ___ people's natural rights
- 19. attacked injustice wherever he saw it
- 21. "leave alone" in French
- 23. During the Enlightenment, European thinkers began looking for ways to apply __ in order to improve the human condition
Down
- 2. separation of powers helped develop the system of ___ __ ___
- 3. laissez-faire system is an economic system that works without ____ regulation
- 4. the idea that people in a society should agree to give up some freedoms to a strong leader in exchange for the peace, safety, and order that government could provide
- 5. the type of government Hobbes thought best
- 6. believed government should work for the benefit of the common good, not for the wealthy few
- 8. center of Enlightenment activity
- 9. thought people were selfish and greedy
- 14. Locke believed that if a government failed to protect its citizens, they had the right to ___ it
- 15. believed people were naturally happy, tolerant, and reasonable
- 17. Rousseau believed people were born good but were corrupted by ___
- 20. Hobbes believed people needed governments to impose __
- 22. gatherings where people came together to discuss their ideas