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: Peter the Great reformed Russia's unmanageable "governorates" in the early 1700s, subdividing them into provinces and districts specifically for fiscal purposes, ensuring every homestead could be accounted for.
: In places like the Ayutthaya Kingdom (ancient Thailand), the king ruled through a system of tributes from local ruling families in autonomous "muangs," which often led to instability when these local leaders switched sides during wars. The Shift to Modern Bureaucracy administrative division
As states modernized, administrative divisions became more rigid and systematic to increase state power. administrative division
