After journeying to Wakor to witness a solar eclipse that he had predicted down to the minute, this ruler fell ill with malaria and died six weeks later.
Among this ruler's modernizing reforms was ending the practice of nobles appearing topless before the king to prove that they had no concealed weapons. After journeying to Wakor to witness a solar eclipse that he had predicted down to the minute, this ruler fell ill with malaria and died six weeks later. This king's personal physician, American missionary Dan Beach Bradley, introduced the printing press to his country. This ruler was forced to grant extraterritoriality and trading privileges to British subjects under the terms of the humiliating (*) Bowring Treaty. Supposedly, Abraham Lincoln rejected this ruler's gift of a herd of elephants intended to be used as war animals in the Civil War. The spectacularly incorrect Romance of the Harem was written about this king's court by a royal governess whom he hired to teach his wives and children, including his successor Chulalongkorn. For 10 points, name this king of Siam whose relationship with Anna Leonowens inspired the musical The King and I.
Among this ruler's modernizing reforms was ending the practice of nobles appearing topless before the king to prove that they had no concealed weapons.
Mongkut [or Rama IV; accept Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua from anyone stupid enough to memorize his whole name; prompt on Rama] 