The Enlightenment Vocabulary Builder

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  1. 5. one of a social group of thinkers in France during the Enlightenment
  2. 6. one of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects
  3. 8. the agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
  4. 10. a major change in European though, starting in the mid-1500’s, in which study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted belief.
  5. 13. 18th-century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and scientific method to all aspects of society
  6. 14. relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in 1600’s and early 1700’s.
  7. 15. measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others.
  8. 16. a belief held by many scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment that God created tie universe and allowed it to run on its own following natural laws
  9. 17. logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation an observation are used to test hypotheses
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  1. 1. in the Middle-Ages, the earth-centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.
  2. 2. system of govt. in which power is divided between a central authority & number of individual states
  3. 3. the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, which protect citizens’ basic rights and freedoms
  4. 4. the idea that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
  5. 7. a social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment
  6. 9. belief held by Enlightenment thinkers that truth could be discovered by reason or logical thinking
  7. 11. relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from Ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe in the late 1700’s.
  8. 12. statement of the reasons for the American colonies’ break with Britain, approved by the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776