Relier Pairs The XVIIIth centuryVersion en ligne Absolutism, Enlightenment and parliamentarism par Gehistart Artgeo 1 Balance of powers 2 Enlightened despotism 3 Trade: growth due to colonial expansion and increased demand 4 Estates of the real (society of estates) 5 Absolutism 6 Demography (high mortality and birth rate) 7 Enlightened thinking 8 Manufactures: guilds and domestic system Reforms in politics, society, economy and culture Egalitarian society; form of government with citizen participation; deism; physiocracy; instruction (education)