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