Answer:
It protected the empire from invasion.
Explanation:
At that time, a conflict of interest exist in India in terms of the spread of Islam and Buddhism. (Asoka wanted to spread Buddhism while the kingdoms in middle east wanted to spread Islam).
As a result, Mauryan empire's territory often faced a lot of potential invasion from the empires that resided in the middle east. In order to handle this, Asoka created a group of spending army that could be mobilized to handle every scale of invasions. Mauryan Empire’s standing army consisted of 600,000 soldiers, 35,000 cavalry, and 6,500 war elephants that were directly led by Asoka.
OK there is only 1 protestant reformation and it was led by Martin Luther. and it will not happen again in a "Calvinist society".
An example of how individuals can act as vulnerabilities,
defense or threats to an information system is this given scenario:
A person can be vulnerable when someone had stolen something
from him or her and she or he can’t do anything about it because he or she can’t
catch the guy alone because he is armed, the police who had saw the scenario
had brought a gun with him for defense and started to chase the guy and he will
be considered as the defense. The threat will be the burglar as if he wasn’t
able to be caught, he could be a threat towards others if he tries to do it
again.