OUTLINE UNIT 1: THE OLD REGIME

1.- THE OLD REGIME

1.1.- The society of estates

1.2.- the agrarian sector

1.3.- Artisanal activity and trade

2.- SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT

2.1.- Absolutism

2.2.- English parliamentarism

2.3.- The Dutch Republic

3.- THE ENLIGHTENMENT

3.1.- The Enlightenment

3.2.- Enlightenment thinkers

3.3.- Enlightened despotism

4.- THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCESSION

4.1.- The war of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

4.2.- Early Bourbon rule

5- ENLIGHTENED DEPOTISM IN SPAIN

5.1.- The enlightened despotism of Carlos III

5.2.- Carlos IV and the end of reform

KEY WORDS AND CONCEPTS OF THIS UNIT (pay attention because there might be
more key words/concepts):

Old regime, estates, commoners, peasantry, tithe, tenants, landowners, subsistence

agriculture, drought, famine, to inherit, riot, guilds, domestic system, royal factories,
triangular trade, absolutism, mercantilism, enlightenment, enlightened absolutism,
decree, foreign trade.