According to the mandate of heaven, a ruler must be good to the people only members of the zhou could rule china the gods wanted china to control all of asia only strong military leaders could rule china

According to the Mandate of Heaven, "the gods wanted China to control all of Asia" although this mandate mostly applied to the idea that kings were divinely appointed.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.