They could make more trips
King Ashoka affected Mauryan empire. He became a Buddhist after he lost a fight and then ceased all military activities in the Mauryan empire and started constructing roads, schools, rest houses, hospitals, and wells for his people. He applied Buddhism in the way he ruled his empire.
The man in the cartoon is looking at what seems to be a news report about the drought in Ethiopia. The man is sitting down to watch the television. The man doesn’t care for the news report as can be seen by his reaction “just another darn repeat”. I believe the cartoonist thinks that the people in the west don’t care about what’s going on in Ethiopia.
The effects of Bacon's Rebellion were that Governor Berkeley returned to power, seizing the property of several rebels and hanging over 20 men. Berkeley soon was relieved of the governorship though, and sent back to England. Indentured servants both black and white had joined the frontier rebellion