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Enlightenment Flashcards

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Divine right

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Belief that a rulers power comes from God, it allowed absolute monarchs power to be LIMITED

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What is absolutism

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Having complete power over the country and peoples life’s, they have complete authority

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Magna Carta

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Law in England in 1215! It limited the power of the monarchy!

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English bill of rights

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Law in England after glorious revolution in 1688, it limited the power of the monarchy

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What is the Limited monarchy

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Gov’t where parliament or a constitution limits the power of the monarch

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Parliament democracy

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Constitutional monarchy and limited monarchy

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Glorious revolution

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A change in England’s government, it went from absolute monarchy, to limited/constitutional monarchy

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What is the Age of Enlightenment

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“Age of reason” when people applied lessons from the scientific revolution to government, people used reason in created ideas about goverment

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Enlightenment thinkers

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People who furthered the ideas of the enlightenment

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Copernicus

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Heliocentric model and sun centered

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Galileo

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Heliocentric model, telescope

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Descartes and bacon

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Scientific method, observation and experimentation

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Newton

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Three laws of motion and the law of gravity

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Kepler

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Planets travel in ellipses

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Henry the 8th

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Church of England and he was a absolute monarch

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Elizabeth the 1st

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She was the first nice absolute monarch and she defeated the Spanish Armada

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Suleiman the magnificent

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Protector of Islam and was a absolute monarch

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Louis 14th

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The sun king, I am the state! Absolute monarch

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William and Mary

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Limited monarchs!!!!!! Only the part of the glorious revolution

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Rousseau

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Wrote the social contract

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Voltaire

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Religious toleration and freedom of speech, Very nice

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Montesquieu

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Separation of powers, checks and balances. 3 branches

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Locke

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Natural rights, life liberty and property

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Hobbes

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Absolutism

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Smith

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Economy should be run by the people

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Absolute monarchs have—- power

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Centralized power

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King James 2nd

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Absolute ruler who tried making England catholic

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Napoleon comes and brings—- to France

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Stability

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After the French Revolution—- is restored

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Old regimes

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Bourgeoisie is what estate

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