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  2. Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    This magical talisman was the physical manifestation of Heaven's mandate, tied up in the fortunes of ruling families, allowing the exiled southern aristocracy to retain their sense of cultural superiority and maintain the validity of Heaven's mandate in the face of counterfactual political reality. [41]

  3. Title 3 of the United States Code - Wikipedia

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    Title 1 - General Provisions; Title 2 - The Congress; Title 3 - The President; Title 4 - Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States; Title 5 - Government Organization and Employees

  4. Benevolence and the Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Benevolence and the Mandate of Heaven: Transformation of pre-Qin Confucian Classics is a book by a Taiwanese historian Olga Gorodetskaya (Kuo Ching-yun), published in 2010 in Taipei. The book concerns itself with the Confucian philosophical concepts of Benevolence (Ren) and the Mandate of Heaven and their evolution during the period before the ...

  5. Religion of the Predynastic and Western Zhou - Wikipedia

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    Tiān 天 (Heaven) was the utmost power worshipped by the Zhou, associated with the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, the development of which is credited to the early Zhou people. [2] [3] It was interpreted as an entity ruling over lesser gods and humans, and as a source of both peace and catastrophes.

  6. Mandate of Heaven (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Mandate of Heaven is a historical concept in Chinese history. Mandate of Heaven can also refer to: The Mandate of Heaven: Record of a Civil War, China 1945–49 by John F. Melby; Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, a computer game

  7. Abdication of Bảo Đại - Wikipedia

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    6.2 Transfer of the "Mandate of Heaven" to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 6.3 Transfer of Nguyễn dynasty treasures to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 6.4 Return of the seal and sword to Bảo Đại and ceremony held in Hanoi on 8 March 1953

  8. Talk:Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    More minor nitpicks are with the parenthetical (means "all under heaven"), where "means" is not necessary and reads as ungrammatical, and the phrase "rendered as 'ruler of the whole world'", where the title has just been rendered "Son of Heaven" (it does indicate rulership over the whole world, although again early conceptions of tianxia differ ...

  9. Dynastic cycle - Wikipedia

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    The empire gains the Mandate of Heaven. [5] (The cycle repeats itself.) The Mandate of Heaven was the idea that the monarch was favored by Heaven to rule over China. The Mandate of Heaven explanation was championed by the Chinese philosopher Mencius during the Warring States period. [5] It has 3 main phases: The first is the beginning of the ...