Recap QUestions PG 155

Q1. The ancient china faced threats like natural disasters,civil wars and also rebellion. The natural disaster in china is the famines because of the increasing population in china, more food were needed and the food produced were not enough. Next is the civil wars. It is the different feudal states having war against each other because of shis getting greedy for more land and power.The most famous was the peroid of the warring states which lasted from 453-221BCE. Another internal threat is rebellion. once the people noticed signs of natural disasters, it means that the king has lost his mandate of heaven, meaning the blessing from heaven to a king to rule his country. The people then rebelled thus using the mandate of heaven as a explaination for their actions.