Was absolutism a period of prosperity or tyranny in europe during the 16th and 17th centuries?

For sure a period of Tyranny.

The name is Absolutism because it is the political doctrine, and practice, of an absolute centralized power, generally in the hands of a Monarch or Dictator.

Kings in Old Europe had absolute power and therefore, they were tyrannic.

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"a government in which power is divided between state and national levels". federalism is a system of government in which entities such and state and province, share power with the national government.