Which of the following statements are/is correct?i. Civilization emerged in the Paleolithic period ii. Bronze was found in natural minerals during the Bronze Ageiii. Both the Shang and the Zhou dynasty rulers practiced ancestral worship (patrilineal)iv. The Shang dynasty rulers invented the concept of the “Mandate of Heaven”

Which statement best describes why the concept of the Mandate of Heaven came about?The nobles wanted an excuse to dethrone kings that they disliked.China was being plagued by river floods and other natural disasters.China was constantly at war, and a solution was needed to bring peace.The ruling family at the time failed to produce kings who were not cruel and unjust.

Which of the following statements are correct?i. Both the Roman Republic/Empire and the Qin/Han Empires (China) relied on bureaucratic administration, staffed by civil servants, to govern large territories ii. China did not go through the Axial Ageiii. The Daoist thought of inaction (non-interventionist approach) in governance was adopted by the Han dynasty until its endiv. Food items were among the commodities traded along the Silk Road

Which of the following statements are correct?i. Legalist reform in the Qin state started with Shang Yangii. Xunzi believed that the nature of man is eviliii. Both Shang Yang and Han Fei advocated strict and uniform administration of the lawiv. Han Fei’s ideas were abandoned completely after the fall of the Qin Empire

Which of the following statements are correct?i. China remained a major centre of the Eurasian trade networks despite dynastic changes during the 3rd to the 13th centuriesii. Heian-kyo was modeled after Chang’an in Tang Chinaiii. Students from Japan and Korea came to Chang’an in Tang China to studyiv. Foreign tributes were treated as equal partners by the Tang Chinese government

5)Archaeologists have been debating the origin of a rare form of lead found in Shang dynasty (1766-1046 BCE) bronze artifacts since its presence was discovered in China in the 1990s. Different researchers have proposed theories on which regions of the world would have had the raw materials containing the specific lead in these artifacts, but no conclusive evidence has been presented. What is intriguing is that bronze artifacts from China dated after the Shang dynasty do not contain this form of lead, suggesting that ______ Which choice most logically completes the text?IFRPRAEN-005bronze was used for a short time during the Shang dynasty before different metals were used to make artifacts.Shang dynasty bronze pieces are rare and therefore more valuable than those from other time periods.methods used to analyze bronze artifacts are not useful on pieces that are dated after the Shang dynasty.the source of some of the raw materials used to make bronze was exploited only until the end of the Shang dynasty.