Ashoka the Great

[LurkerBaba]

Ashoka is on reddit, getting lots of upvotes

TIL that the world's first Buddhist ruler, Emperor Ashoka, who ruled India form 274-232 BCE, was the first ruler in human history to ban slavery, the death penalty, animal cruelty, and deforestation. He even advocated gender equality in education and

 

[asoka250]

A Pity that he did not take steps to ensure a worthy successor and implement an orderly mode of transition. One thing about our great dynasties that always saddened me was their short lifetimes.
We should have been like rome going on and on and on for a few hundred years at least.

We certainly would have but the problem is Ashoka adopted Buddhism which is all about peace n harmony...barabarians like Han chinese don't care about peace....those days all eyes are on India so it's tuff to survive longer unless you are very brutal n ruthless...