As a Chinese dynasty faced internal revolts, corruption in the bureaucracy, and external invasion, it was said to have lost its way (according to Taoist tradition)

lost the Mandate of Heaven

abandoned the emperor

completed the cycle

peasants’ war, (1524–25) peasant uprising in germany inspired by changes brought by the reformation, peasants in western and southern germany invoked   divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from oppression by nobles and landlords. as the uprising spread, some peasant groups organized armies. although the revolt was supported huldrych zwingli and thomas müntzerits condemnation by martain luther contributed to its defeat, principally by the army of the swabian league. some 100,000 peasants were killed. reprisals and increased restrictions discouraged further attempts to improve the peasants’ plight.

i think it would be " a" i might be wrong tho

c is the correct answer for this question.

hernan cortes;

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