In early civilization, the idea of mandates of heaven was used mainly to ?

The Mandate of Heaven concept helped individuals or groups of people gain power in a civilization.  An individual would claim that they had received a Mandate of Heaven which granted them divine recognition to rule.  By claiming their authority came from the gods, the people would accept them as their leader.

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the first action that caused many creek indians to turn against william mcintosh was when mcintosh a) supported the united states during the creek war of 1813–1814. b) attempted to stop the sale of creek land to the u.s. government. c) seized control of over 1,000 acres of land belonging to the creeks.