Zhou Dynasty Essay

King Wu the leader of the Zhou overthrew the last king of the Shang Dynasty. This started the Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou dynasty was the longest of the Chinese dynasties. The Zhou dynasty introduced a process known as the mandate to heaven. The mandate to heaven determined the king and also if the king should be impeached. The mandate to heaven was also used to justify the Zhou's rebellion. Along with the coming of the Zhou dynasty also came a new political order. In the Zhou dynasty political order people were granted land for the services such as serving in the military or showing loyalty. The king was in charge of all the plots of land which he granted to the people second highest in the political order, the lords. The lords did certain things such as paying taxes to

Confucius was also known as “Kongfuzi” or “Master Kong” Confucius is important to history because he was the person who Confucianism. Confucianism is one of the methods in China that restored order. Confucianism helped china by advising people to return to ethics such as a child being respectful their parents or family being loyal to each other. Confucius also had ideas about government also that included that the king should be a role model and that lower classes of people should look up to the higher classes of people. Along with Confucianism came Daoism and Legalism. Daoism supported that people should live in harmony with the Dao. Daoists even believed that the ruler was in harmony with the dao and that the ruler would govern effortlessly. One of the most famous Daoist teacher was Laozi. He was important to Daoism because he was credited with writing a famous Daoist book called, The Way and Its Power. Laozi eventually got so famous he was worshiped as a supernatural being. Legalism was a belief like Confucianism and Daoism. Legalism had strict rules. In Legalism if one person committed a crime more than one person would be