Transcript His birth in 304B.C.E

Ashoka the Indian King Timeline
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His birth in
304B.C.E
1. 4. 2. 3.
5.
His death in
232 B.C.E
Number One
• Ashoka became an emperor in 274 B.C.E
then he started to act cruel to his people
and began to take over land.
Number 2
• In 265 B.C.E Ashoka took over Kalingas.
Which made his army the largest at his
time containing 600,000 infantry, 30,000
cavalry, and nine thousand war elephants!
Number 2 1/2
• In 265 B.C.E Ashoka had concurred many
countries and had superiority over the
southern kngdoms.
Number 3
• Ashoka converted to Buddhism in 264
B.C.E because legend goes that he saw
all burned houses and scattered corpse
after a war. It made him sick so he
became a Buddhist.
Number 4
• Ashoka started to make his edicts in 269
B.C.E they focused on Buddhist Values,
Justice, Security, and General Welfare.
Number 5
• Ashoka’s edicts were finally shown to they
public in 231 B.C.E one year before he
died. These edicts influenced Buddhism
today and then.
Bibliography
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Asho
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empir
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• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_ashok
a_convert_to_buddhism
• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entr
y/Ashoka