Pls no jokes or links, I'll give brainliest :) "What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Did I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant What's this debris of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil?"

The above quote is from Emperor Ashoka after he walked the blood stained war fields of the Kalinga war. Describe what Ashoka is saying and why his conversion to Buddhism makes sense.

My take on his quote is that he's asking about the reasons for why a war took place. To elaborate, he's making subtle points about how the war happened due to the greed, hatred and other mortal reasons.

Explanation:

Well to understand his conversion to Buddhism in the first place is to understand the goal of Buddhism. The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to reach Nirvana, aka the point of enlightenment where earthly sinful desires such as greed, hatred, and etc do not exist at all. Essentially, the answer is that Ashoka is tired of the endless killings due to hatreds, greed, and etc, and he converts to Buddhism in order to find Nirvana so that he does not need to keep himself in continuous suffering.

b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.