Across
- 2. a European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society
- 3. a philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain
- 7. the period of Charles II's rule over England, after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell's government
- 9. the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
- 11. Enlightenment thinkers' belief that truth can be discovered through reason or logical thinking
- 13. landowning noble of Russia
- 17. a statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain
- 18. the agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government
- 19. French government official appointed by the monarch to collect taxes and administer justice
- 21. an adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western—especially European or American—countries.
- 23. a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses
- 24. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' basic rights and freedoms
- 26. the bloodless overthrow of the English king James II and his replacement by William and Mary
- 27. a social gathering of intellectuals and artists held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment
- 28. measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others
Down
- 1. 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
- 4. one of the European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects
- 5. king or queen who had unlimited power and tried to control all aspects of society
- 6. one of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment
- 8. the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 10. a document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that it can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal
- 12. relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s
- 14. a system of governing in which a ruler's power is limited by law
- 15. a person during the Enlightenment who believed that God created the universe and then allowed it to run by itself following natural laws
- 16. the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
- 20. a group of advisers or ministers chosen by the head of a country to help make government decisions
- 22. a system of government in which power is divided between central authority and a number of individual states
- 25. relating to a simple, elegant style that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s