theory of the Mandate of Heaven

Posted: December 10th, 2013

Go on www.coursesmart.com
then go on my bookshelf
then sign in
e-mail adresse is sebli_tf@yahoo.com
password getahun1
then you ll see a world civilization book on the website.
you go throught that and answer the essay question from the book. all of the source should be from the book on the website.

here is the direction for the essay

a) Please type your essay in a double-spaced format in 10 or 12 point font with no more than 1 inch margins (standard layouts for word processing programs). It is preferable, however, to single-space your name and course info at the top of the first page.* b) Please do not use the Internet or other outside source to write your essay. You are being tested on your understanding of the assigned course material (i.e. the textbook). Essays with the highest scores will be those that evidence well-written and thought- through answers to all parts of the question(s) that are supported by proper citations.
c) Please cite pages from the course textbook in the appropriate places within your essay where you’ve use them as sources for what you have written. Please include your citations within the text (parentheticals) or as footnotes at the bottom of each page. If you do not understand how to cite sources within your essay, please ask the professor. A “Works Cited” page or bibliography is welcome, but does not suffice for not having proper citations of pages in their proper locations within your essay.
d) Your essay should be at least 2 full pages in length (you may write more than 2 pages if you wish, but try to keep it reasonable please as the prof. has to read it all). *If you feel you must double-space your name and class info at the top of the first page, please make-up for it by writing a bit more into a 3rd page so that your actual essay is really at least 2 full pages long. (don’t have a huge blank space at the top of the page).

and here is the essay question.

What was the theory of the Mandate of Heaven and how it was used to defend the rule of the Zhou? In what way was the well-field system supposed to work and what problems also existed within the system? What about the Zhou hegemony system — in what ways might it also have been good and not so good? How did women’s lives change from the early Shang to the late Zhou? Why did such a change occur? When one considers the Shujing as a historical source for the 1500 years that preceded the Zhou period, what problems might it present, in particular for our knowledge of the Xia and the Shang periods?

please answer the essay question from the book on the website.