The correct answer is B) He committed to a principle of nonviolence.
What was a result of Asoka's conversion to Buddhism was that he committed to a principle of nonviolence.
Let's have in mind that Asoka had been a fierce and violent warrior and Emperor. He showed no mercy to his enemies.
However, after so much pain and destruction caused in war, he changed.
Asoka imitated the Buddha principles and started to meditate beneath a tree.
Emperor Ashoka decided to convert to Buddhism because one day he realized the damage he had created to other people during the Kalinga War. He felt remorse and he changed his life. He found peace in the teachings of Budha and considered it beneficial to all humans and animals, to the degree he ordered to build many temples or stupas.
The thought of beheadment turned him on
The U.S President Theodore Roosevelt became acquainted with
the naturalist John Muir in 1903. Muir guided the President through the
Yosemite wilderness, and convinced him to establish the Yosemite National Park,
the first in the country. Muir opposed the damming of the Hetchy Hetchy Valley,
known for its granite formations, and wrote to Roosevelt against it. However,
Roosevelt’s successors, not Roosevelt, approved the dam. So the two did not had
a solid disagreement.
He interviewed explorers and propagandized their stories in a popular book.
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary, born in Venezuela, who liberated 6 countries in northern South America from Spanish forces sent by the then king of Spain, Bolivar traveled to Europe to ask Spain to withdraw its military forces from America, stop repressing the people and taking advantage of their wealth, but they ignored him, then he returned to South America from where he undertook a battle to free the countries, achieving the objetives and winning almost all of the fights.
