The answer is c.
Ashoka was o<span>ne of India's greatest emperors, and he reigned over a realm that stretched from the </span>Hindu Kush<span>mountains in the west to </span>Bengal<span> in the East and covered the entire </span>Indian subcontinent<span> except parts of present day .</span><span> </span>
The enlightenment sparked ideas of natural rights and freedoms, when the British government had colonized the americas, there were no rights granted. The people educated in the enlightenment know thinkers like John Locke with his idea that everyone is born with rights, and resize they are not receiving these.
The main reason why the border states did not secede in 1860-1862 was because they were concerned with the large amount of military coercion that was taking place in the South, and they felt that the South was ultimately unjustified in removing itself from the Union.
