The Enlightenment and Absolute Rulers

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Across
  1. 4. Intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individualism
  2. 9. Argued for natural rights of life liberty property
  3. 11. Agreement in which people give up some freedoms for order
  4. 12. The Enlightenment thinkers believed that you were born with these- Life, Liberty and Property.
  5. 16. Philosopher who believed in the general will and social contract
  6. 17. Modernized and westernized Russia
  7. 19. Poor peasant farmers in Europe. They were basically slaves.
  8. 20. Enlightenment writer who defended freedom of speech and religion
  9. 21. Expanded Russia and supported limited Enlightenment reforms
  10. 23. The Enlightenment brought about a call for freedom of Speech, the Press and _________.
Down
  1. 1. Idea that monarchs receive authority from God
  2. 2. French absolute monarch known as the Sun King
  3. 3. Ban of books or ideas that challenged absolute rulers
  4. 5. Believed humans are naturally selfish; supported strong absolute monarchy
  5. 6. Gathering where Enlightenment thinkers discussed ideas
  6. 7. Proposed separation of powers and checks and balances
  7. 8. Waterway that Russia finally conquered under Catherine the Great
  8. 10. Prussian ruler who embraced some Enlightenment ideas
  9. 13. Nicknamed "The Citizen King" who freed the serfs in Austria.
  10. 14. System where a ruler holds total power
  11. 15. Created the Encyclopedia to spread Enlightenment ideas
  12. 18. Lavish palace symbolizing absolute royal power
  13. 22. Rights people are born with according to Locke