Are there any examples in history of countries returning to "lower"

Pre-colonial Mississippian culture.

>>1945842
Rome comes to mind.

>>1945842
Spain too. But in this case the monarchy brought democracy back

The UK going from monarchy to constitutional "monarchy"/parliamentary republic

>>1945842
Poland

>>1945842
If viewed from a Marxist perspective, going from USSR to Russian Federation was a step down since you're going from socialism to capitalism

Albania went back to a monarchy in 1928 after over a decade as a republic, only to return again after WWII

>>1945842
Happens all the time, Athens and Rome would always be changing between more and less democratic societies with the temporary Oligarchies and Dictators. France went back and forth for a while too after the revolution. In areas like Africa where things are always changing it happens fairly often as well.

>>1947258
This.

>>1947258
UK is still absolute monarchy. King can decline any act of Parliament and any offered stuff of Cabinet.

>>1947958
No it absolutely is not. It's a constitutional monarchy

>>1947960
Without constitution.

>>1947987
without a *written constitution

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>>1945842
Japan.

Started life as a centralized empire with a de-facto-ruling Emperor with a meritocratic bureaucracy just like China and Korea. BTFO themselves by the central government doing nothing but art & being complacent, the social climbing and one upsmanship of noble houses related to the Emperor's household, and empowering the warrior class, sending them back into feudalism and strongmanship rule.

Sweden's age of liberty during the 1700s

>>1948003
State based on written laws. No constitution - no constitutional monarchy.

>>1945842
The Netherlands did

>>1945842
The english brought the monarchy back after cromwell died

>>1948061
The laws are written, just not on a single piece of paper at one time.

>>1945842
Germany went from Empire to Republic to Totalitarian.

>>1948007
Wasn't the emperor always a puppet for strongmen, the number of truly active/powerful emperors in Japan's history able to be counted on one hand?

>>1949768
I guess it depends on how literally you take Japanese history. Japan didn't even have a written language until the 5th century and didn't have a written account of its history until the early 8th century, so the accuracy of their record before then is debatable. Contemporary Chinese texts don't match with Japanese accounts.

Before the shoguns took over in the 12th century, actual rule was mostly done by either regents or retired emperors. So, I guess, if you consider a retired emperor an emperor, they ruled for a few hundred years.