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