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Specific event is a tad constraining. I'd go back and educate the peeps before religion took a foothold and contaminated their minds and set mankind back millennia. We lost so much on the exponential intelligence curve. Still being thwarted today by idiots. C'mon idiots, step up and defend yourselves
How would you know, that what you changed would make the world 'better'? Whose idea of 'better'? We would not be where we are, were it not for all that went on before. Changing a previous event in no way guarantees that the future outcome would be 'better'.
Of course not, but it's fun to imagine. My daughter gave me a book once called What If, wherein different historians wrote essays on how think it would have gone if historical events had had a different outcome.
My favorite was what if Harold had won at the Battle of Hastings.
Monarchy does not inherently mean un-democratic. Sweden and Canada have monarchs and Japan has an emperor but they’re all very democratic, perhaps more so than the US.
Japan is a poor example. The only reason they have the democracy they do is because the warlords who actually ran the country under the monarch lost a war and were forced to give up power. I will give you Sweden but Canada (like Japan) is not a European country.
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Germany and Austria-Hungary were flawed partial democracies but they were making progress. They had elected legislatures with voting rights given to at least some citizens, even in minority areas. By 1914, each of their monarchs was not absolute; prime ministers (or the equivalent) and elected legislatures had some power. The level of democracy was higher in both countries than it had been decades before.
It has been years since I did much reading on German steps towards democracy but what I remember is that the steps taken were very shallow and meant to give the working class as little as possible but to shore up the position of the elite. I have not done much on A-H except to understand that it was such a conglomeration of systems that I don't think there was much hope of maintaining a unified government without extended civil conflict much longer. The third member of the Central powers was an 18th century entity that was attempting to survive using modern methods against dissident tribal groups that formed much of their population and had no intention of loosening the grip on poser (but again they were mainly a western Asia power not a European power.
Russia was its own worst enemy with a large uneducated population controlled by a powerful elite and being stirred up by rabbel rousing idealists.
What you’re describing is known as the ‘grandfather paradox’. If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you remove yourself from the equation. According to some ideas in cosmology (not any actual theory), whatever outcome you affect in the past, creates a new timeline in a parallel universe.
Japan is a poor example. The only reason they have the democracy they do is because the warlords who actually ran the country under the monarch lost a war and were forced to give up power. I will give you Sweden but Canada (like Japan) is not a European country.
It has been years since I did much reading on German steps towards democracy but what I remember is that the steps taken were very shallow and meant to give the working class as little as possible but to shore up the position of the elite. I have not done much on A-H except to understand that it was such a conglomeration of systems that I don't think there was much hope of maintaining a unified government without extended civil conflict much longer. The third member of the Central powers was an 18th century entity that was attempting to survive using modern methods against dissident tribal groups that formed much of their population and had no intention of loosening the grip on poser (but again they were mainly a western Asia power not a European power.
Russia was its own worst enemy with a large uneducated population controlled by a powerful elite and being stirred up by rabbel rousing idealists.
Both Austria-Hungary (which had universal suffrage for all men starting in 1906) and Germany per-WWI were more democratic than under Nazi and Communist rule.
Adolph Hitler would have opened a successful art Studio.
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