Vocabulary S.S23435
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- Or government led by kings or queens,ruled much of europe
- Monarchies
- system places absolute,or total,power in the hands of a ruler and his or hers advisers
- Absolutism
- the idea that rulers recive thier power directly from god and are responsible only to god and not the people
- divine right
- a monarchy with unimited power,would unify a nation and make it strong
- absolute monarchy
- a system in which power is restricted by the people
- limited government
- great charter which established the idea of limited government
- Manga carta
- group of people who helped make laws
- Parliament
- people who wanted to purify the protestant church of england
- Puritans
- bans the kings from doing three important things
- Petition of Rights
- state ruled by elected representatives
- Common wealth
- ruled by the military
- martial law
- is the return of monarchy
- restoration
- which the monarchs exercised absolute and total control
- unlimited government
- the Russian word for \"Cacsar\"
- Czar
- the use of scientific and logical thinking to draw conclusions about society
- Reason
- a period in the middle ages plced thier faith in religon
- Enlightement
- law that applied to everyone and that could be understood through reason
- natrual law
- a \"blanks slate,\" or mind
- Tabula Rasa
- rights beloning to all humans from birth
- Natural rights
- an agreement between citizens and their ruler.
- social contract
- an educated person who uses reasons to study life
- Philosophes
- divisions of power among the branches of government
- Separations of powers