SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Mandate of Heaven
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Dynastic Cycle
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Civil Service System
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Filial Piety
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mandate of Heaven was the belief that the Chinese emperor had a divine right to rule given him by the god or divine force known as Heaven or Sky. The emperor had absolute power but also a responsibility to rule for the good of his people.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Xia Dynasty The Zhou created the idea of the “Mandate of Heaven, ‘’ which stated that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at any given time. If he was a good ruler, he would have the support of heaven; if he was despotic, he would be overthrown.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mandate of Heaven was reinforced by Confucianism and its teachings. Confucianism was a belief system derived from the writings of Chinese scholar Kong Fuzi (Wade-Giles: Confucius) who lived between 551BC and 479BC.
Detailed explanation-4: -However, once he lost the divine right to rule, the Mandate of Heaven was given to someone else. For example, at the end of the 19th century, a group of rebels who were protesting the emperor’s new industrialization campaign claimed they had received the Mandate of Heaven.