Enlightenment Vocabulary

The study of knowledge and reason. Learning about the way people think

• Revolution

• Monarchy

• Philosophy

• Biology

A drastic change or uprising against power.

• Contract

• Revolution

• Rights

• Tolerance

A drastic change in the field of science which lead to many new discoveries.

• Scientific Revolution

• Revolution

• Tolerance

• Inalienable

A written or spoken agreement

• Deist

• Contract

• Philosophy

• Rights

Type of government where a monarch (king or queen) shares power with the government.

• Monarch

• Constitution

• Constitutional Monarch

• Democracy

A type of government with a single ruler at the top. Usually a king or queen

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Rights

A document of the laws that make up a country.

• Rights

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• None of the above

Rules that are allowed or owed to people. Things people should have the ability to do

• Constitution

• Deist

• Rights

• Contract

Rights that un able to be taken away from you.

• Inalienable

• Rights

• Deist

• None of the above

The age of enlightenment mostly took place in which continent?

• Asia

• North America

• Europe

• Antarctica