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28 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Monarch
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ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people he or she governs
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Divine Right
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belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God
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Armada
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fleet of ships
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Levee
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morning ritual during which nobles would wait upon King Louis XIV
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Intendents
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official apponted by French King Louis XIV to govern the provinces, collect taxes, and recruit soldiers
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Balance of Power
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distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nationfrom becoming too strong
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Dissenters
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Protestant whose views and opinions differed with those of the Church of England
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Limited Monarchy
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government in which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers
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Physiocrats
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Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics
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Mercenaries
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soldiers serving in a foreign army for pay
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Depopulation
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reduction in population
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Westernization
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adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture
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Boyars
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landowning noble in Russia under the czars
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Natural Laws
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rule or law that belongs to all humans from birth
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Social Contract
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agreement by which the people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos
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Philosophes
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members of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
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Censorship
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restriction on accesss to ideas and information
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Salons
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informal social gathering at which writers, artists and philosophers exchanged ideas; originated in France
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Enlightened Despots
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absolute ruler who uses power to bring about political and social change
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Constitutional Government
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government whose power is defined and is limited by law
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Prime Minister
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head of the cabinet in a parliamentary government; usually the leader of the largest party in the legislature
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Oligarchy
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governemnt in which ruling power belongs to a few people
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Loyalists
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colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution
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Cabinet
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parliamentary advisors to the king who originally met in a small room, or "cabinet"
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Richelieu
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appointed chief miniser by Louis XIII; he spent 18 years straightening out the central governement
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The Encyclopedia
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28 volumes; included articles by leading thinkers of the day and was to be composed of human knowledge
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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did not believe t hat women's nartural rights were limited to the areas of the home and family. a female philosophe
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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the most controversial philosophe believed that people in their natural right were basically good
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