The kings house was surrounded by decapitated bodies as some sort of spiritual rite. The Sky God (Ti'en in Shang times) was worshipped by the king in order to keep the Mandate of Heaven. What did that mean?

The answer should be b

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.