Relier Pairs The XVIIIth centuryVersion en ligne Absolutism, Enlightenment and parliamentarism par Gehistart Artgeo 1 Demography (high mortality and birth rate) 2 Manufactures: guilds and domestic system 3 Enlightened despotism 4 Enlightened thinking 5 Absolutism 6 Trade: growth due to colonial expansion and increased demand 7 Balance of powers 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)