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