CH 8 ASHOKA , THE EMPEROR WHO GAVE UP WAR

Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock. It includes the preparation of plant and animal products for people to use and their distribution to markets.

The Chalukyas and the Pallavas were major kingdoms that ruled much of South India. The Pallavas had established their capital at Kanchipuram in the Kaveri Delta, while the Chalukyas had their capital at the Raichur Doab located between the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers.

Yes, we think that the slaves-and the servents were ill-treated in the society because they have no political rights. The orders of the emperor could have made the slaves free. If the servants were ill-treated then the master could be punished.

Answer: In his message Ashoka speaks about: (i) Being gentle with slaves and servants.(ii) Respecting one’s elders.(iii) Treating all creatures with compassion.

Ashoka saw the wounded and dying soldiers, and the windows or offence and the necessary and suffering that war had brought to the people. This cause Ashoka much grief and remorse. So, he decided that he would not fight anymore was in future.

The Kalinga War fought between the Mauryan Empire and the state of Kalinga, an important kingdom that controlled the trade routes with Southeast Asia. Ashoka, the Mauryan king, wanted to capture Kalinga and so his huge army there in 262 BC.

Ashoka was named to be a unique ruler as he was the first ruler who tried to take forward his message to people through inscriptions wherein he described his change in belief and thought after the Kalinga War.

mohenjodaro: This city was founded as a well planned city with proper drainage system, grain storage area, houses were made of mortars bricks or mud bricks when excavated in Pakistan . Patliputra: It was a city capital of Ashoka empire.This whole city was walled and have 570 tower and 64 gates.

was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indianethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors that quoted his work. quoted his work. Megasthenes was the first person from the Western world to leave a written description of India.

something that you say or do to show that you respect or admire somebody/something, especially somebody who has died.