The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that Heaven (天; Tian) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly. According to this belief, heaven bestows its mandate to a just ruler, the Son of Heaven, and withdraws it from a despotic ruler, leading to the overthrow of that ruler. The Mandate of Heaven would then transfer to those who would rule best. The fact that a ruler was overthrown was taken by itself as an indication that the ruler had lost the Mandate of Heaven.
So, the right answer is A The Zhou Dynasty’s justification for its leadership.
Answer:
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffick of our stage;
Which best states the purpose of this excerpt?
<u>1</u><u>)</u><u> </u><u>It</u><u> introduces the disagreement of the parents.</u>
Answer:
i think it c
Explanation:
James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties. ... Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.
It is called a participial adjective.
They are pretty common in English language and in the sentence provided the participial adjectives are "gnarled" and "twisted" as they were created from the verbs "to gnarl" and "to twist".
