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Enlightenment (Characteristics (Faith in human progress, Criticism the Old…

- - - - maize
      - potatoes
    - - Continuous rotation system
  - - - Cottage industries
      - Manufacturing
  - - - Improvement of roads
      - Building of waterways
    - - Colonies
        
        Provided precious metals
        
        Demanded manufactured products and African slaves
      - Stimulation of
        
        commercial capitalism
        
        credit
        
        trading companies
        
        banks
        
        stock exchange
- - - - Power of the king limited by the parliament. Critizised the stratified society
    - - Separation of the executive, legislative and judicial power.
    - - Soreignity or power resides in the citizens.
- - - - Improved nutrition
      - Absence of epidemics
      - Decline in number of wars
  - - - Wealth of the nation based on the land
      - Economic freedom and not controlled by the state
    - - The Wealth of Nation (1776)
        
        Individual work is the source of the wealth
        
        State should not intervene in the economy
        
        Economy is regulated by the laws of the market
        
        Based on free competition
        
        Free interplay between supply and demand