In Early china civilization they believed in the Mandate of Heaven. Mandate of Heaven is royal authority comes from God, they believed that the Gods look down on them and chose who would rule the empire. The four main principles of this is that heaven grants the emperor the right to rule, there can only be one emperor at a time, the emperor’s virtue determines his right to rule and no dynasty has a permanent right to rule. This belief started in 1027 B.C.E. when the Zhou dynasty came to rule. The Zhou Dynasty used this to justify the overthrow of the Shang dynasty. The Mandate of Heaven lasted until 1912
