How did Absolute Monarchy start?

Monarchs through most of history had de jure absolute power, but because they could not usually extend their power effectively to the local level, their power did not make it to the local level without interlocutors like local lords, barons, dukes, viscounts, and counts who were able to exert some power in contrast. By the early 1600s, though, technology made it increasingly easier to centralize government work, making the de jure absolute power become de facto absolute power as well. This is usually seen as the beginning of absolutism as a political doctrine.