Heaven's Mandate: A Historical Novel

Thirty-two centuries ago, a relatively small tribe on the western fringe of the Chinese world prospered and became strong. It went on to challenge the powerful kingdom that encompassed almost the entire known civilized world in East Asia. In the culture of the times, a king was acknowledged to have Heaven's Mandate to govern, and essentially to own, everything in his realm; and the king of this large and powerful kingdom certainly and consciously claimed to have this mandate from Heaven.
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