What economic factors helped to cause the fall of dynasties, according to the Chinese Dynastic Cycle theory?
What will be an ideal response?
First explain what the Dynastic Cycle Theory is, and how it is related to the concept of the Mandate of Heaven. How was both the economic downturn caused by over-expenditures due to court luxury and military expansion a sign of the loss of the Mandate and a pragmatic cause for the real decline of an empire? To what extent did the view that such changes were naturally occurring effectively limit government reform?
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