4º CC.SS. - TEMA 1 - Vocabulario

• Absolute Monarchy: monarchy of divine character; the king wasn’t accountable to anybody else.
• Bill of Rights: bill that limited the power of the monarch and made him submit some of his decisions to the Parliament
• Encyclopaedia (Encyclopédie): was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772. It was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert.
• Enlightened Absolutism: is a form of absolute monarchy in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenment.
• Enlightenment: was a cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century.
• Estate: the Estates of the realm were the broad social orders of the hierarchically conceived society.
• Physiocracy: is an economic theory developed by the Physiocrats, a group of economists who believed that the wealth of nations came mostly from agriculture.
• Third Estate: the majority of people which were not part of the other estates. It was divided into two groups, urban and rural.
• Thirteen Colonies: the Thirteen Colonies were the colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America revolted against the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1775.
• Treaty of Utrecht: treaty that ended the international conflict and recognized Philip of Bourbon as king of Spain.