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Unit 3 vocab SS
Absolutism and Enlightenment vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |