Question

can anyone help me with some questions?

Answer 1

Yup!

Answer 2

Which is true about Asoka's connection to Buddhism?

He was key to spreading it across India by issuing the Edicts of Asoka.
He created a popular sect within the religion, called Sikhism.
He persecuted monks and nuns, causing them to flee.
He favored Hinduism over Buddhism, causing division within the empire.

Answer 3

First who is Asoka?

Answer 4

um I am not totally sure

Answer 5

LOL. Google it first.

Answer 6

k then brb

Answer 7

Let me know what you found.

Answer 8

here is what i found

Ashoka Maurya, commonly known as Ashoka and Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE

Answer 9

okay so lets seeif we can rule out some ansewers

Answer 10

ok

Answer 11

did he pesecute nuns?

Answer 12

let me see

Answer 13

brb

Answer 14

http://www.ancient.eu/Ashoka/

Answer 15

"In the beginning, Ashoka ruled the empire like his grandfather did, in an efficient but cruel way. He used military strength in order to expand the empire and created sadistic rules against criminals. A Chinese traveller named Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) who visited India for several years during the 7th century CE, reports that even during his time, about 900 years after the time of Ashoka, Hindu tradition still remembered the prison Ashoka had established in the north of the capital as “Ashoka’s hell”. Ashoka ordered that prisoners should be subject to all imagined and unimagined tortures and nobody should ever leave the prision alive.

During the expansion of the Mauryan Empire, Ashoka led a war against a feudal state named Kalinga (present day Orissa) with the goal of annexing its territory, something that his grandfather had already attempted to do. The conflict took place around 261 BCE and it is considered one of the most brutal and bloodiest wars in world history. The people from Kalinga defended themselves stubbornly, keeping their honour but losing the war: Ashoka’s military strength was far beyond Kalinga’s. The disaster in Kalinga was supreme: with around 300,000 casualties, the city devastated and thousands of surviving men, women and children deported.
India was turned into a prosperous and peaceful place for years to come.

What happened after this war has been subject to numerous stories and it is not easy to make a sharp distinction between facts and fiction. What is actually supported by historical evidence is that Ashoka issued an edict expressing his regret for the suffering inflicted in Kalinga and assuring that he would renounce war and embrace the propagation of dharma. What Ashoka meant by dharma is not entirely clear: some believe that he was referring to the teachings of the Buddha and, therefore, he was expressing his conversion to Buddhism. But the word dharma, in the context of Ashoka, had also other meanings not necessarily linked to Buddhism. It is true, however, that in subsequent inscriptions Ashoka specifically mentions Buddhist sites and Buddhist texts, but what he meant by the word dharma seems to be more related to morals, social concerns and religious tolerance rather than Buddhism. "


from link

Answer 16

wow ok then im out

Answer 17

go to the link, and it shows something called

The Edicts of Ashoka

and you'll find the answer. ;)

Answer 18

so would it be the first one then?

Answer 19

The first one should be right @LittleMissCreeper

Answer 20

can you help me with any more?

Answer 21

yes

Answer 22

Of course!

Answer 23

However you need to open a new question instead of adding to this one.