HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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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 Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: ; pinyin: Tiānmìng; Wade–Giles: T’ien-ming; lit. ‘Heaven’s will’) is a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emperor Wu of the Zhou was the first ruler to legitimize his reign through the concept of the Mandate of Heaven.
Detailed explanation-4: -tianming, Wade-Giles romanization t’ien ming (Chinese: “mandate of heaven”), in Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that heaven (tian) conferred directly upon an emperor, the son of heaven (tianzi), the right to rule. The doctrine had its beginnings in the early Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–256 bce).