4º CC.SS. - TEMA 1 - Vocabulary

Join words and definitions: Absolute Monarchy, Bill of Rights, Encyclopaedia (Encyclopédie), Enlightened Absolutism, Enlightenment, Estate,Physiocracy, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Treaty of Utrecht, Triangular Trade.

• Social group in the Ancien Régime.
• The king had absolute power. The monarchy was of divine character.
• Treaty that ended the War of Spanish Succession.
• British colonies in North America.
• It carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers.
• It limited the power of the monarch and made him submit some of his decisions to the Parliament.
• It was an 18th century cultural movement in Europe.
• Non-privileged group in the Ancien Régime.
• A great work that should assemble all the knowledge of the epoch.
• It is a form of absolute monarchy or despotism in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenment.
• A economic thinking. The economists thought that wealth came mostly from agriculture.