WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In China, the Zhou Dynasty created the concept of a Mandate of Heaven. They used this mandate to justify seizing power from the Shang Dynasty. The mandate states that if a dynasty becomes corrupt or fails at protecting the empire then the people are allowed to overthrow it.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), also known as Heaven’s Mandate, was the divine source of authority and the right to rule of China’s early kings and then emperors. The ancient god or divine force known as Heaven or Sky selected a particular individual to rule on its behalf on earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -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).