Europe in the 18th century: Introduction

Europe in the 18th century wasn't like the Europe in the 21st century. Are you curious? 

Look the map!

There was a political system called absolutism in which the monarch has all the power and it comes from God. The best example is the king of France, Luis XV. In this century there were 4 empires: The Ottoman Empire, the Austria- Hungary Empire, the Rusian Empire and the Germany Empire.

There were also enlightened monarchies as in Spain (Charles III), in Prusia, Rusia, Austria-Hungary, Sweden and Denmark.

But, there were monarchies with limited power too, as in England.
Well, fourtunately we live in a democracy. but, in Europe some countries now don't exist and some of them are fragmented.

Now Prusia doesn't exist, Austria-Hungary was fragmented into Austria, Eslovaquia, Hungary...
The Balkans area was also fragmented into Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia...
Italy and Germany were fragmented in the 18th century.