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 Manufactures: guilds and domestic system 4 Enlightened thinking 5 Enlightened despotism 6 Estates of the real (society of estates) 7 Demography (high mortality and birth rate) 8 Absolutism Egalitarian society; form of government with citizen participation; deism; physiocracy; instruction (education) Reforms in politics, society, economy and culture