Where did the monarchy go? We were ruled by kings, queens, emperors, and empresses but today almost every monarchy disappeared. This video answers what happened to monarchies. And why don't modern monarchies have any power? We will also talk a bit about the rise of democracy. Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Historyscope Credits - Research: Mrs Scope - Animation: Petra Lilla Marjai - Audio: Seb. Soto Social Media - Discord: https://discord.gg/JYCYPvqba6 - Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryScope/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScopeHistory - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialhistoryscope/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/averythingchannel/ Sources - Websites - https://www.britannica.com/place/France/Political-ideology - https://face2faceafrica.com/article/africas-last-three-monarchies-remain-standing#:~:text=Before%20now%20in%20Africa%2C%20kings,pushed%20them%20into%20the%20background. - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFR/africa/life-expectancy#:~:text=The%20current%20life%20expectancy%20for,a%200.46%25%20increase%20from%202019 https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/worldhistory/chapter/chapter-8-absolutism/ https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/worldhistory/chapter/the-english-civil-war-and-the-glorious-revolution/ https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/fmst-2019-005/html https://www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/romanov-family-executed https://www.britannica.com/summary/Russian-Revolution https://www.britannica.com/biography/Puyi https://www.historyhit.com/puyi-last-emperor-of-china/ Sources - Books F. Fukuyama (1992) The End of History and The Last Man. The Free Press. New York J. J. Rousseau (2004) The Social Contract. Penguin Books. London W. Doyle (2019) The French Revolution. Oxford University Press. Oxford A Brief History Of Spain (2019) J. Black. Robinson. Cornwall Blood and Iron (2022) K. Hoyer. The History Press. Cheltenham K. Ghattas (2020) Black Wave. Wildfire. Headline. London Smith, S. A. (2002) The Russian Revolution – A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Oxford Sources - Journal Articles Franz Michael (1955). State and Society in Nineteenth-Century China. World Politics, 7, pp 419-433 doi:10.2307/2009000