PIG Vocab Test Review 1

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John Locke

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An Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights. Life, liberty, and propery

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Thomas Hobbes

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An Enlightenment thinker who believed the best form of government was an absolute monarchy.

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Baron De Montesquieu

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An Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of powers or three branches of government.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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An Enlightenment thinker who believed that all people were born naturally good. Believed in the will of the majority called "The General Will"

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Voltaire

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An Enlightenment thinker who believed in freedom of speech.

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Magna Carta

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The first document that placed limits over royal authority and established the law as a power in itself  

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Colonization

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The process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

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Hammurabi’s Code

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The oldest set of laws and regulations in history, which originated in Babylonia

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Taxation

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The process of funding the government by charging citizens for their actions

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Liberty

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The condition of people who are able to act and speak freely