Answer:
Right choice: a. The king was viewed as an intermediary between heaven and earth.
Explanation:
The kings of the Shang dynasty were not as powerful as later emperors. Feudal lords and regional warlords had much power in ancient China until the unification under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. Nevertheless, among the functions of Chinese kings was the performance of rituals and religious ceremonies in honor of the Heaven, and of another gods. In this way, he was an intermediary between the world of men and Heaven. It was in later centuries that the emperor started to be seen as the depositary of the "mandate of Heaven."
For one, they are able to declare war. Many think that the President can ONLY authorize war, but it has to go through Congress.
In an analytic way, we can say The U.S. government took little action to prevent Nazis from killing Jews. The US were particularly more concerned about dealing with unemployment and national security instead of caring about Jews suffering. Besides that, antisemitism and racism were also part of the American mind, contributing to the little action to prevent Nazis Jewish mass murder. When the US finally got involved in the war they were more interest in winning military campaigns than humanitarian rescue. But Under pressure, President Roosevelt had set up a War Refugee Board early in 1944. It managed to rescue about two hundred thousand European Jews and some twenty thousand others.
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