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