Is there a common denominator which led to this throughout history & across many nations?
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Those in power live glorious lives compared to the poor.
The poor shoulder this until some kind of something comes in the way and really pisses them off and gets them riled up.
In the USA it was taxes they didn’t like. In France it was several TERRIBLE harvests causing widespread hunger, and taxes they didn’t like.
In the UK, it was taxes they didn’t like that lead to the constitutional monarchy.
In 1848 there were widespread revolutions that spread across almost all of Europe, wanna guess that caused that? Terrible harvest and economic crisis.
In Russia what was going on when the Tsar was over thrown? A war and guess what else? Terrible harvests that left the poor I get.
So an argument can be made that in every crisis or revolution ever, the most most likely causes were:
Bad harvests leading to hungry, angry, peasants
Economic mismanagement/over taxation leading to financial crisis.
And/or a combination of both.
For any kind of monarchal over throw to happen, there needs to be something that drives the majority of the population, the peasants, into Angry revolt. And the easiest was to do this is if they have no food from bad harvests, or no money for food from economic mismanagement.
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