Enlightenment Flashcards
Divine right
Belief that a rulers power comes from God, it allowed absolute monarchs power to be LIMITED
What is absolutism
Having complete power over the country and peoples life’s, they have complete authority
Magna Carta
Law in England in 1215! It limited the power of the monarchy!
English bill of rights
Law in England after glorious revolution in 1688, it limited the power of the monarchy
What is the Limited monarchy
Gov’t where parliament or a constitution limits the power of the monarch
Parliament democracy
Constitutional monarchy and limited monarchy
Glorious revolution
A change in England’s government, it went from absolute monarchy, to limited/constitutional monarchy
What is the Age of Enlightenment
“Age of reason” when people applied lessons from the scientific revolution to government, people used reason in created ideas about goverment
Enlightenment thinkers
People who furthered the ideas of the enlightenment
Copernicus
Heliocentric model and sun centered
Galileo
Heliocentric model, telescope
Descartes and bacon
Scientific method, observation and experimentation
Newton
Three laws of motion and the law of gravity
Kepler
Planets travel in ellipses
Henry the 8th
Church of England and he was a absolute monarch
Elizabeth the 1st
She was the first nice absolute monarch and she defeated the Spanish Armada
Suleiman the magnificent
Protector of Islam and was a absolute monarch
Louis 14th
The sun king, I am the state! Absolute monarch
William and Mary
Limited monarchs!!!!!! Only the part of the glorious revolution
Rousseau
Wrote the social contract
Voltaire
Religious toleration and freedom of speech, Very nice
Montesquieu
Separation of powers, checks and balances. 3 branches
Locke
Natural rights, life liberty and property
Hobbes
Absolutism
