“Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, helped win Chinese acceptance of foreign rule by giving his dynasty a Chinese name and welcoming several prominent Chinese scholars as advisors; he established his court and the Yuan capital in Dadu (modern Beijing) to keep the symbolic center of rule in China ... The Mongols had united China again, and the Chinese believed that by doing so the Yuan had won the Mandate of Heaven." -Haiwang Yuan, historian, 2010 Q: The author’s assertion that the Chinese came to believe that “the Yuan had won the Mandate of Heaven” can best be understood in the context of which of the following?