5. What is the Mandate of Heaven and its role in the cycle of Dynasties?

the mandate of heaven is where they felt that God would create natural disasters if their emperor was not good and that helped the dynasties to change rulers fairly often

The answer is d. After WW 1 the allies blamed all of the war on Germany. They were required to pay for everything as well as reduce their military. Not to mention that Germany was in ruins after the final allied invasion. They had no infrastructure no money and no pride.