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Unit 3 vocab SS
Absolutism and Enlightenment vocab
Term | Definition |
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Deism | Belief in the existence of a supreme being specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. |
Absolutism | The principle of complete and unrestricted government power usually in the hands of one person a dictator or despots. |
King Louis XIV | King of France in 1600's and 1700's. |
Divine Right of KIngs | The belief that the right of rule derives directly from god not from the consent of the people. |
Enlightenment | A period form the late 1600's to the late 1700's in Europe in which people changed their outlook on life. |
Age of Reason | Time during the 1700's when enlightenment ideas were the leading ideas in Europe. |
John Locke | An English philosopher that said natural laws govern human behavior and government should be based on these natural laws . |
Natural Rights | Rights that belonged to all human beings from births right to life liberty and own property. |
Philosophes | Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvements of society. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | |
Baron de Montesquieu | |
Thomas Hobbes | |
English Civil War | |
House of Stuart | |
Parliment | |
Oliver Cromwell | |
Constitutional | |
Glorious Revolution |