The answer is religious ideas because the Mandate of Heaven is essentially that of there being a Chinese emperor ruling by divine right.
Answer:
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Explanation:
✦ The Boston Massacre and why they open fired:
✧ They open fired because the colonists were throwing things, insulting them, and pretty much getting extremely violent, so they open fired because they felt threatened and at risk for their lives. Yet this wasn't the only brawl. There were many before this but they lead up to this.
✧ The reason the crowd was so angry and the brawl started was because days before a boy was shot by a British loyalist, who accidently shot him when being attacked by a mob.
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