Across
- 4. Enlightenment thinker who believed in freedom of speech and religion
- 6. Improved the telescope and proved Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory correct
- 10. System of government where the ruler has absolute control
- 11. An enlightened despot who ruled Russia
- 12. Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of powers and 3 branches of government
- 13. Believed the best form of government was an absolute monarchy and that people were naturally selfish
Down
- 1. Belief that an absolute monarch's authority to rule came directly from God
- 2. An agreement between the people and the government to follow the same laws
- 3. Theory that the Earth revolved around the sun
- 5. Believed the best form of government was a direct democracy
- 7. English Enlightenment thinker who believed that the role of government is to protect people's natural rights (life, liberty, and property)
- 8. Used John Locke's ideas of Natural Right's in the Declaration of Independence
- 9. King of France who was an absolute monarch
