use the terms mandate of heaven and fuedilsm to describe the form of government set up under the zhou dynasty?
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We still live in the days of feudalism even if left some hundred years behind after fall of zhou dynasty, mandate of heaven legacy
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An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. It can also be a prediction of the future, from the gods, that is spoken through another object or life-form. In the ancient world many sites gained a reputation for the dispensing of oracular wisdom: they too became known as "oracles", as did the oracular utterances themselves, whose very name is derived from the Latin verb orare, to speak.\n\nOracles were common in many civilizations of antiquity. In China, the use of oracle bones dates as far back as the Shang Dynasty, (1600 BCE - 1046 BCE). The I Ching, or "Book of Changes", is a collection of linear signs used as oracles that dates from that period. Although divination with the I Ching is thought to have originated prior to the Shang Dynasty, it was not until King Wu of Zhou (1046 BCE-1043 BCE) that it took its present form. In addition to its oracular power, the I Ching has had a major influence on the philosophy, literature and statecraft of China from the time of the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BCE - 256 BCE).
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2 a : mode of rule or management b : a form of government <a socialist regime> c : a government in power <predicted that the new regime would fall> d : a period of rule
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A STATE CANNOT HAVE ANY LEGITIMATE POWERS UNLESS THEY ARE GIVEN TO IT BY ITS CITIZENS\nIf government officials decide one day that no one should work on Sunday, even assuming the community generally supports their decision, where would they get the authority to use the police power of the state to enforce such a decree? Individual citizens don’t have right to compel their neighbours not to work, so they can’t delegate that right to their government. \nWhere, then, would the state get the authority? The answer is that it would come from itself; it would be self-generated. It would be similar to the divine right of ancient monarchies in which it was assumed that governments represent the power and the will of God – as interpreted by their earthly leaders, of course. \nIn more modern times, most governments don’t even pretend to have God as their authority, they just rely on swat teams and armies, and anyone who objects is eliminated. As that well-known collectivists, Mao Tse-Tung, phrased it: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
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It involves the governments, but it's also about the rule the world is currently under. 1 John 5:19 says the world is lying in the power of the wicked one. So this system of things is ruled by Satan, in other words he is the god of this system or these wicked times we live in. If you like you can e-mail me and we can discuss it further.
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a monarchy is a type of government that is ruled by 1 individual...namely a king or queen.\n\nIt was used to benefit the king...what he said, went, no questions asked.  It also eliminated the middle man, the king said stuff and things happened, therefore speeding up the whole decision making process...either in a good way or a bad way.\n\nits structure:\n\nking at top\nthen church if applicable\nthen other nobles in the land\nthen peasants (ordinary people)\nthen slaves if applicable
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The fall of Yuan ( The Mongal imperial dynasty )\n\n   In the 1350's, the pace of rebellion picked up. Several rebel leaders, almost all of whom came from the merchant or lower classes, seized cities and set themselves up as kings or even, with just a small bit of territory, proclaimed themselves Emperor. China was no longer in the control of the Emperor—it had been carved up among the rebel warlords. \n\n   One of these warlords was called Kuo Tzu-hsing; he controlled the territory of Anhui. However, it isn't Kuo Tzu-hsing that interests us; it is, rather, the general he appointed in 1355, Chu Yüan-chang, who would become the founder of the Ming dynasty. Chu was a peasant; along with Liu Bang (ruled 206-195 BC), he was the only peasant to found a Chinese dynasty. When Kuo Tzu-hsing died, Chu set about his real ambition: conquering the whole of China. It is said that a scholar told him he would succeed if he followed three rules: a.) build strong city walls; b.) gather as much grain in storage as possible; c.) be slow to assume titles. Chu followed these rules assiduously. \n\n   With his army, Chu slowly conquered one warlord's territory after another while carefully watching the government's army. By 1368, he had conquered all of southern China; this is the date at which the Ming dynasty officially begins. By 1369 he had driven the Mongols out of China. Except for Szechwan in the east (which was conquered in 1371) and Yünnan in the southeast (conquered in 1382), Chu controlled all of China in 1369.
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this might be of some use:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
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Gerontocracy-a government in which the elders rule
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Confucius taught that government should rule through rites and rules in tune with the commoner's natural morality. Therefore, one will refrain from breaking a law because it goes against his conscience to do so; the "punishment" preceeds the crime. Therefore, because these laws enforce themselves without effort, the government will not have to resort to force to keep the peace.\n\nChinese legalism is based upon the assumption that personal morality changes and that one can therefore control the commoners and enforce peace only with outside measures. A law, therefore, must be well-publicized and have a concrete reward or punishment coinciding with whether it is followed or not in fact; the punishment follows the crime. Laws would be supreme in this state, even over the ruler, thereby making all human interaction predicatable and hopefully harmonious.
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http://www.thedictatorship.com/ \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship\n\nThese two sites are the best, you can get information off these
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Tyranny-One person controls everything.\n\nAristocracy-A group of elite peopel control everything.\n\nDemocracy-All the people control everything.
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In Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism, the historical origin of bureaucracy is to be found in four sources: religion, the formation of the state, commerce and technology.\n\n                     The earliest bureaucracies consisted of castes of religious clergy, officials and scribes operating various rituals, and armed functionaries specifically delegated to keep order. In the historical transition from primitive egalitarian communities to a civil society divided into social classes and estates, occurring from about 10,000 years ago, authority is increasingly centralised in, and enforced by a state apparatus existing separately from society. This state formulates, imposes and enforces laws, and levies taxes, giving rise to an officialdom enactingthesefunctions.
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For specifics, refer to Wikipedia (I can't give you links because its blocked in China).\n\nBefore 1911, China was ruled by Emperors.  The emperor's court was made up of eunuchs--pronounce "you-nick"-- (men with their testicles removed).  It was a great honor to become a Eunuch, if you survived the process, and in those days of crude removal techniques, many men died in the eunuch-ization process...\n\nthe idea was that the Emperor was the only one who could have "desires" and "relations", the eunuch's only desires should be to serve the empirical court.
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______________Your answer enclosed!___________\n\n\nTHE THREE HEAVENS\nThere's 3 heavens. \n\nFirst Heaven = This is also called the firmament or expanse of heaven. It is the heaven where the birds fly and where the clouds give rain. (Gen.1:26; 2:20; 8:2 & 1Kings 18:45)\n\nSecond Heaven = This refers to outerspace where the sun, moon and stars can be found. (Gen.22:17 & Exodus 32:13 & Joshua 10:13)\n\nThird Heaven = The Apostle Paul tells us that the heaven of God's abode is the "third heaven." In the Old Testament this is often designated by the phrase "the heaven of heavens." (Joshua 2:11 & Psalms 11:4 & 2Corinthians 12:2 equated with v.4 = paradise)\n\nTHERE ARE TWO KINGDOMS: ONE ON EARTH AND THE OTHER ONE COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN.\n\nThe 1st Kingdom of Heaven =\nDAN.7:27 = "AND THE KINGDOM AND DOMINION, AND THE GREATNESS OF THE KINGDOM UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN, SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, WHOSE KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND ALL DOMINION SHALL SERVE AND OBEY HIM."\nREV.5:10 = "AND HAST MADE US UNTO OUR GOD KINGS AND PRIESTS: AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH."\n\nThe 2nd kingdom of Heaven =\nAFTER 1,000 YEARS = A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH-HOLY CITY COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN = REV.21:1-4; ISAIAH 65:17-25; 66:1,22 AND ETC.\n\nSO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO---\nISAIAH 66:21; ZECH.14:9-11 = "BUILD HOUSES, PLANT VINEYARDS, EAT VINEYARDS" \nISAIAH 66:23; ZECH.14:16-19 = "WORSHIP FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER AS ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER"\nJESUS WILL BE GIVING CITIES TO THE SAINTS INWHICH THEY WILL BE TEACHING OTHERS THE TRUE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE = MATT.25:14-23; EZEKIEL 36:10,33; LUKE 13:26; ISAIAH 61:4\nWE WON'T MARRY OR BE GIVEN UNTO MARRIAGE = MATT.22:30\nBOYS AND GIRLS WILL BE PLAYING IN THE STREETS = ZECHARIAH 8:4-5,8\nMEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH = PSALM 37:9-11; MATT.5:5; REV.5:10
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Until 1911 China had a monarchy, i.e. government headed by an emperor and a royal family. But from Roman era times to 1911, most jobs in the government, including the very highest ones, were staffed by people who had done well on a series of intensely competitive civil service exams.  If you passed one of these exams, you could literally go from being a nobody to being a powerful government official overnight.  If we had this in the US, people who passed the big exam would be offered jobs where their boss was a cabinet secretary. And people who passed the hardest test might be offered the cabinet posts themselves.\n\nThese exams were not like exams for postal worker or something.  They were essay tests on your knowledge of the works of Confucius and other philosophers of that era (around 500 BC-200 BC), on the philosophy of good government.  Both the books and your answers had to be written in a special version of Chinese called classical Chinese, which was as removed from modern spoken Chinese as Latin is from English (or maybe Italian anyway).  It took several days to take an exam, and they were only given once a year.\n\nThe exams themselves were more like the kind of test you might take to get a master's degree or a Ph.D., if we had such a thing.  There was actually a series of 3 different exams, which Chinese people sometimes equate to BA, MA, PhD.\n\nIn theory, anyone could take the exam, so this was very egalitarian.  In practice, it cost a lot of money to get the education you needed to do well on the exam, both because the education itself cost money and because a full time student couldn't be earning money for the family.  And it cost a lot of money to travel to the capital where the exam was being held, and then to pay for food and lodging etc. while you were there.\n\nPeople who passed the lowest level exam were qualified to be heads of county or city government, which typically also included the role of a judge.\n\nIf you want a fun way to learn about this, a man wrote named Robert van Gulik wrote a series of detective stories with a Chinese judge/magistrate as the main detective. Together they are called Judge Dee mysteries.