HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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there are many references to the cow in the Rig Veda
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Most of the wars were fought for the sake of cows
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Gifts made to priests were usually cows and not land
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The economy of Rig-vedic Aryan was dependent on pastoralism and agriculture. Cattle was the measure of wealth. The wealthyman was called Gomat. They used the term ‘Aghanya’ for cow which mean not to be killed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Rig Vedic Aryans were pastoral people and their main occupation was cattle rearing. Hence, Option 1 is correct. Their wealth was estimated in terms of their cattle. When they permanently settled in North India they began to practice agriculture.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Rig Vedic Aryans had mainly a pastoral economy. Cattle formed an important item of dona (gifts) made to the priests. The word Gomat was used to signify a wealthy person. It meant the one who possessed many cattle, especially the cows and bulls.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indo-Aryans in the Early Vedic Period, approximately 1750-1000 BCE, relied heavily on a pastoral, semi-nomadic economy with limited agriculture. They raised sheep, goats, and cattle, which became symbols of wealth.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Vedic society was patriarchal and patrilineal. Early Indo-Aryans were a Late Bronze Age society centred in the Punjab, organised into tribes rather than kingdoms, and primarily sustained by a pastoral way of life. Around c. 1200–1000 BCE the Aryan culture spread eastward to the fertile western Ganges Plain.