INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cultivated crops There are references to rice, millets, sugarcane, banana, cardamom, pepper, cotton, sesame, coconut, and nut. Farmers were aware that rice could be grown as rainfed crops. Banana and sugarcane were ratooned.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subsistence in the Sangam Age was through agriculture because the technology wasn’t very much advanced. People didn’t have much knowledge about anything other than agriculture. It became the single source of subsistence for the people of that time.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Sangam age, 500 BCE – 300 CE, agriculture was the main vocation of the Tamil. It was considered a necessity for life, and hence was treated as the foremost among all occupations. The farmers or the Ulavar were placed right at the top of the social classification.

Detailed explanation-4: -Major exports of the Sangam age were cotton fabrics and spices like pepper, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and turmeric along with ivory products, pearls and precious stones. Major imports for the traders were horses, gold, and sweet wine.