20th century, the most dramatic and exciting time! Part 1

Part 1: The abolition of absolute monarchy!

Have you ever sit and faced with this question? Which is the most dramatic and exciting century for human kind? I mean a century which contains most important events and discoveries that made tremendous changes for all of us, no matter good or bad legacies. And if the kind of question is facing on me, I'll unhestatingly reply that my most exciting century of all is the 20^th.

In this investigative series, I’ll be looking back through time 100 years ago to see what those important events were and compiling them into the 10 top dramatic and exciting events of the 20^th century. And now we'll begin with the first event, the abolition of absolute monarchy.

According to Christian Era, 20^th century began on January 1^st, 1901 and ended on December 31^st, 2000, and during this hundred years, a lot of triumphs and tragedies had been packed along its period of time. As you probably know, before the 20^th century, many nations around the world had adopted the kind of primitive administration through the form of absolute monarchy which only king solely regulated and controlled his subjects, and this form of governance worked smoothly and effectively at that time because the society was so simple and almost all subjects were less educated and entirely lacked chances to enter politics.


But remember what happened in the early 20^th century? When we saw the world has changed. We witnessed the dissolution of absolute monarchy in many countries throughout the world, especially in Europe and Asia continents, which brought tremendous changes to billions of people. The collapse of The Russian Empire, the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire has turned long-term subjects to become dominant classes who can control their own destinies as well as gain chances to what only noblemen derived in the past.


To the Asian nations' side, although the Chinese’s absolute monarchy was entirely abolished and the last emperor, Puyi, was finally chased away from his forbidden city and spent the rest of his life as a gardener, the Japanese and Thai monarchy have fortunately survived the event but they needed to adopt the new role of the head of the state under the constitution. Anyway, the smooth and bloodshed transmission of power from royal families to public in these countries only occurred by the generosity and sacrifice of those leaders at that time, and their great dedication will be forever noticed.

As we see now, the early 20^th century was truly the time of political and administrative transmission for most of the world’s population, especially in China which already contained billions of residents at that time. In the next part, I’ll bring you back to the world wars which also only happened in the 20^th century, and from my opinion, the outcome of these tragic events has enormously shaped the world’s politics and economic system which we’re connected today.