"The Scopes Trial<span>, formally known as </span>The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes<span> and commonly referred to as the </span>Scopes Monkey Trial<span>, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, </span>John T. Scopes<span>, was accused of violating </span>Tennessee<span>'s </span>Butler Act<span>, which had made it unlawful to teach </span>human evolution<span> in any state-funded school." wikipedia</span>
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."
