Across
- 3. Denoting to a style of architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries
- 5. A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
- 9. Refers to historical changes in thought and belief, to changes in social and institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700
- 11. Reasoning in which the premises seek to supply strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion
- 12. Form of government in which the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority
- 15. An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits
- 18. The theory in which it is believed that the planets and stars orbit around the sun
- 19. A ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way
- 20. An emperor of Russia before 1917
- 21. Intellectuals of the 18th century Enlightenment
Down
- 1. Process of reasoning from one or more general statements to reach a logically certain conclusion
- 2. A fleet of warships
- 3. A member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank to a prince
- 4. Form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the guidelines of a constitution
- 6. An assembly of guests in a fashionable household, esp a gathering of major literary, artistic, and political figures from the 17th to the early 20th centuries
- 7. A theory that allowed the belief of the planets, stars, and even the sun orbits around the Earth
- 8. The social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilizations
- 10. A European intellectual movement of the later 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
- 13. A method of procedure that has characterized natural science through 6 different methods put together to help with discovering new things
- 14. A writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, esp to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention
- 16. The doctrine that kinds derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects
- 17. French Protestants of the 16th-17th centuries
