The Enlightenment

Deism

• applied to everyone and could be understood by reason

• a religious belief based on reason

• a belief that government power should be divided in to branches

• an agreement between rulers and people

Social Contract

• a religious belief based on reason

• a belief that government power should be divided among three branches

• an agreement between rulers and people

• a government in which monarchs hold total pwer

absolutism

• applied to everyone and could be understood by reason

• an agreement between rulers and peopple

• a belief that government should be divided into three powers

• a government in which monarchs hold total power

separation of powers

• applied to everyone and could be understood by reason

• a religious belief based on reason

• a belief that government powers should be divided among three branches

• a government in which monarchs hold total power

natural law

• applied to everyone and could be understood by reason

• a religious belief based on reason

• an agreement between rulers and people

• a government in which monarchs hold total power

During the Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke based their ideas of government on

• monarchy rule

• natural law

• absolute law

• social rule

Separation of powers means that government power is divided among the executive, judicial, and

• throne

• parliament

• religious

• lagislative

One English writer who was a strong supporter of women's rights was

• Mary Waollstonecraft

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Denis Diderot

• Francois-Marie Arout

France's Sun King, or __________, was the most famous absolute monarch in history.

• Frederick the Great

• Joseph II

• Louis XIV

• Maria Theresa

This ruler was one of Russia's most powerful czars

• Frederick the Great

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

• Maria Theresa