The soil was really bad for farming since it was so hard and didn't meet the nutritional needs for plants, so they decided to do agriculture, some example of these are fishing, lumber (wood from trees), textiles, and shipbuilding to name a few. The economy was at a normal level, some jobs were fishermen, dock workers, sailors, shipbuilders, merchants and artisans. Hope this helps and have a nice day!
Because he started preaching non violence after the battle of Kalinga. Who were the Tamil people? they were a people part of three kingdoms who had never been conqured by the Mauryans and often fought amungst eachother.
