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The Transformation of the Ancien Régime and The Enlightenment…

- - - - economic
        system
      - imposed by
        European absolute monarchs
      - Limited imports
      - Encourage exports
    - - outdated
        techniques
      - tools
      - low
        productivity,
  - - - the crown had
        unlimited authority
    - - Power limited by Parliament
  - - - 1st and 2nd
        
        Privileges
      - 3rd
        
        Bourgeoisie
        
        Petite bourgeoisie
        
        Peasantry
- - - - defended the
        separation of powers.
    - - agreement between the
        citizens and their government.
    - - Power
        should be limited by Parliament
  - - - Crop rotation
      - New machinery
      - Repopulation
      - New crops
    - - Rural areas
        
        Domestic system
        
        Restricitions by the guils
      - Increase in demand for many
        consumer goods
      - Royal manufactures
        
        Luxury gods
        
        Monarchy, nobility, bourgeoisie
    - - Domestic trade
      - Canals
      - Improve of roads
    - - Increased the exchange between America and Europe.
  - - - Scientific advances
      - Improvements in nutrition and hygiene
      - Reduction in the number of epidemics
    - - Critics to the influence
        
        Lands and buildings confiscated
        
        Number of convents reduced
      - Bourgeoisie
      - Peasants
  - - - Education as a way to improve
        people's quality of life
      - Attack to privileged people's
        idleness
      - Political centralisation:
      - Control over the Church's
        power
    - - Joseph II (Austria)
      - Frederick the Great (Prussia)
      - Catherine the Great (Russia)
      - Carlos III (Spain)