THE ENLIGHTENMENT Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
ABSOLUTISM | The power of the monarch was unlimited except by divine law or by what was called ‘natural law’ |
OLD REGIMEN | Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution. Social institutions, divided into three orders: clergy, nobility, and others (the Third Estate) |
ENLIGHTENMENT | An intellectual movement during the 18th century in Europe. |
NATURAL RIGHTS | Rights that people have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights. |
ENLIGHTENMENT DESPOTISM | A form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment |
COLONIALISM | A political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. |
PHYSIOCRACY | The wealth of a nation is based on the land (agriculture and minig). |
ECONOMIC LIBERALISM | The individual work which aims to obtain to maximum personal benefit, is the true source of wealth. |
COTTAGE INDUSTRIES | A business or manufacturing activity carried on in people's homes. |
MANUFACTURING | Any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machinery. |
TRIENNIAL ROTATION | The practice of growing different crops in succession on the same land chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soil. |
STRATIFIED SOCIETY | Is a kind the difference between social differentiation]] whereby a society groups people into socioeconomic strata |
BOURGEOISIE | The social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class. |
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