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