A- Absolute Rule

When a King or Queen has total rule over everyone and everything.

B- Baruch Spinoza

A Dutch philosopher who made modern conceptions of self and the universe.

C- Century of Lights

The Century of Lights is was an intellectual movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. 

D- Divine Right

D-Divine Right

Monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.

E- Enlightenment

A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.

F- French Revolution

A period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799

G- Galileo Galilei

An Italian polymath: astronomer,physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He contributed to the observational astronomy that include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter and the observation and analysis of sunspots

H- Hall of Mirrors

As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV of France's third building campaign of the Palace of Versailles

I- Immanuel Kant

Tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom and political authority, as well as map out a view of the public sphere through private and public reason.

J- John Locke

Came up with "Natural Rights"

Life, Liberty and Property.

K- Kepler

First to accurately describe the elliptical orbits of Earth and the planets around the Sun  

L- Louis XIV

A monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch

M- Mary Wollstoncraft

A huge advocate for Women's Right's. 

N- Newtonianism

 A doctrine that involves following the principles and using the methods of natural philosopher Isaac Newton.

O- Organized

In the Social Contract, people would exchange most of their freedoms for the safety of organized society.

P- Philosophy

The study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline, a huge part of the Enlightenment period.