Answer:
Because he saw in Dharmma a way to cause an organization of social norms.
Explanation:
Dharmma was not a religion, but it used Buddhist concepts and a mixture of different religions present in the kingdom to establish a series of social norms and behavior that should be followed by the population. With the creation of Dharma, Ashoka managed to ensure that these norms were followed by everyone in his reign, regardless of the beliefs they followed, even managing to make possible visitors, or foreigners, succeed in following them without hurting their religious concepts.
People began to develop networks of urban settlements when the rise of agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplusfood and economic stability
The PYRAMIDS AND THE GREAT SPHINX rise inexplicably from the desert at Giza, relics of a vanished culture. They dwarf the approaching sprawl of modern Cairo, a city of 16 million. The largest pyramid, built for the Pharaoh Khufu around 2530 B.C. and intended to last an eternity, was until early in the twentieth century the biggest building on the planet. To raise it, laborers moved into position six and a half million tons of stone—some in blocks as large as nine tons—with nothing but wood and rope. During the last 4,500 years, the pyramids have drawn every kind of admiration and interest, ranging in ancient times from religious worship to grave robbery, and, in the modern era, from New-Age claims for healing "pyramid power" to pseudoscientific searches by "fantastic archaeologists" seeking hidden chambers or signs of alien visitations to Earth. As feats of engineering or testaments to the decades-long labor of tens of thousands, they have awed even the most sober observers.
Historians must look at the age of the evidence itself, they must also look at whether it can be corroborated by other pieces of historical evidence and that the source of the evidence is reliable.
