How did the rule of Asoka affect the empire? AHe imposed strict rules and punishments on people throughout the Mauryan Empire. BHe ordered the killings of thousands of people in lands outside the Mauryan Empire. CHe stopped warfare and had Buddhist shrines built throughout the Mauryan Empire. DHe produced a legal code that governed all people who lived in the Mauryan Empire.

At first he ruled like his grandfather, Chandragupta Maurya, using warfare and violence. However, after a battle, he felt sorrow over the murder and suffering that war gives, and therefore decides to rule his empire through peace and non-violence. He converted to Buddhism and encouraged many people to do the same by spreading Buddhist ideas in pillars throughout the many roads he built.