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natural laws Ans: Closely related to the Enlightenment idea of
natural rights, the belief in these guided the call for
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unalterable privileges
natural rights Ans: These were unalterable privileges that
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ought not to be withheld from any person, including equality
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before the law, freedom of religious worship, and the right to
hold property
enlightened absolutism Ans: a new type of monarchy where
rulers, such as Frederick II and Catherine the Great,
supposedly followed enlightened principles and effected
reforms from above
balance of power Ans: an eighteenth-century concept
predicated on counterbalancing the power of one state by
another to prevent any single state from dominating the others
agricultural revolution Ans: the improvements in agricultural
practices and methods in the eighteenth century, notably
increasing productivity and yields, particularly in England
cottage industry Ans: the domestic system, this was a textile
production system where rural workers spun and wove raw
materials provided by merchant-capitalists in their own homes
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Maria Theresa of Austria Ans: Empress who governed the
Austrian Empire from 1740 to 1780 and resolved to reform her
empire, primarily after losing Silesia to Prussia in the War of
the Austrian Succession
Frederick William I of Prussia Ans: A Prussian king (1713-1740)
who promoted the evolution of Prussia's highly efficient civil
bureaucracy by establishing the General Directory and
dramatically expanding the army
Frederick II of Prussia Ans: Known as the Great, he was a well-
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educated Prussian monarch (1740-1786) who enlarged the
army, granted limited reforms like religious toleration, and
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seized Austrian Silesia
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Catherine the Great Ans: the Russian Empress who
corresponded with philosophes and claimed she wished to
reform Russia, but whose subsequent policies ultimately
strengthened the landholding nobility
Enclosure Acts Ans: legislation enacted by the English
Parliament that allowed agricultural lands to be legally
enclosed, often destroying the traditional patterns of English
village life
Pragmatic Sanction Ans: a negotiated agreement by the
Habsburg emperor Charles VI with various European powers to
recognize his daughter, Maria Theresa, as his legal heir to the
Austrian throneq
Pugachev's Rebellion Ans: a full-scale mass revolt across
southern Russia led by the Cossack Emelyan Pugachev, who
promised to free all peasants from oppressive taxes and
military service