Early Zhou rulers justified overthrowing the Shang Dynasty by claiming thatthe Shang king was illegitimate and born of a barbarian mother.a higher power had deemed that the Shang no longer had the right to rule and designated the Zhou rulers as the ones now responsible for that task.the Shang king had captured Zhou nobles and sacrificed them to their ancestors.Shang rulers had broken the oaths they had taken when they allied with the Zhou to govern western territory.

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