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King Mongkut (1) the King of Siam (Thailand) in the year 1851. Mongkut (2) Siam for seventeen years. Mongkut was a (3). A dynast is an (4) ruler. This means that Mongkut became King because his family had been ruling Siam before him. Mongkut was the fourth member of his family to be king of Siam and so he was (5) Rama IV. How did Mongkut's family become the rulers of Siam?

In the previous century P'ya Taksin had been the King of Siam, and for a number of years he had slowly gone (6). Many of the King's advisers turned against him and asked a powerful General (Chakri) to (7) P'ya Taksin and become the new King of Siam. General Chakri overthrew P'ya Taksin and (8) himself King of Siam. He was known as Rama I and was the first ruler of the Chakri Dynasty. The Chakri Dynasty was (9) and it has (10) to the present day.