The Mandate of Heaven
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Image Sources
The approximate territory of the Zhou Dynasty
Territories_of_Dynasties_in_China.gif: Albert Herrmann (1935). History and Commercial Atlas of China. Harvard University Press.
from "The Chou Dynasty, 11th-9th Centuries B.C."
Diagram of the interactions between the wuxing. The "generative" cycle is illustrated by grey arrows running clockwise on the outside of the circle, while the "destructive" or "conquering" cycle is represented by red arrows inside the circle.
By Parnassus - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28500461
Approximate territory of the Shang dynasty Map of Shang Dynasty from Bamboo Annals
By Lamassu Design Gurdjieff (talk) - Image by Author, CC BY-SA 3.0,
File:Shang dynasty.svg Created: 24 July 2009 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10381870
Bronze Da Yu Ding
By Gary Todd - This file has been extracted from another file, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140631176
Territories of the Qin Empire.
By I, PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2272529
Xin Dynasty
CC BY-SA 4.0 Own work
Map of Xin Dynasty (8 - 23 AD)
File:Xin Dynasty.png Created: 6 July 2017
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