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Enlightenment Vocabulary

Authored by John Robinson

Social Studies

7th Grade

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Enlightenment Vocabulary
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enlightened despot

Period of time right before Enlightenment: a highly elaborate style of architecture, art and design that flourished in Europe in the 17th & 18th centuries

a belief that we come to knowledge through the use of logic, and thus independently of sensory experience

is a ruler with absolute power (a despot) who embraces Enlightenment ideals

an informal education for women, where they were able to exchange ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals

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A European movement that happened during the late 17th and 18th centuries using reason and logic as well as individualism to explain the natural world rather than tradition.

Separation of Powers

The Enlightenment

Separation of Church and State

Social Contract

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The belief that things can be proven using logic and reason. 

Empiricism

Humanism

Rationalism

Individualism

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To give up some rights to gain order, protection or safety

Natural Laws

Absolutism

Free Exercise

Social Contract

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Which Enlightenment thinker is known for the idea of separation of powers in government?

John Locke

Voltaire

Baron de Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What is the term for the belief in the power of human reason to understand and shape the world?

Empiricism

Rationalism

Skepticism

Humanism

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Which Enlightenment philosopher wrote 'The Social Contract'?

John Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Hobbes

Immanuel Kant

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