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The Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese political ideology that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the king or emperor of China. According to this doctrine, heaven (天, Tian) bestows its mandate on a virtuous ruler. This ruler, the Son of Heaven, was the supreme universal monarch, who ruled Tianxia ("all under heaven", the world). If a ruler was overthrown, this was interpr... Wikipedia