Choose the best historical explanation of oracle bones. Practiced by the priests, oracle bone divination alerted when a King should be overthrown.
Royal use of questioning the future on a bone that later provided evidence of writing of the Shang Dynasty.
Used by the King, oracle bones were always vaguely divined to assure the future wishes of the King.
Chinese peasants could forsee the future by asking a question and having the bone break pointing the direction to travel.