WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prices in Aryan society were often calculated using cattle. Most wealthy people in this society had extensive herds of cattle. Cattle did not become sacred animals (as they are now in the Hindu religion) until much later. In the Vedic Age sometimes the men of one village would raid herds of cattle of another village.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Aryans were pastoral by nature and the economic importance of cattle to this society is mirrored in the role of cattle in ritual, in the pastoral symbolism of the Vedic literature (the ancient religious literature of Hinduism), and also in the association of the cow with various Vedic deities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cows held great economic value and were the main wealth. A wealthy person was known as gomat. Cows were also offered as ‘Dana’ or gift and Bali or tribute to priests and chief of the clan. Cows held a significant position in the trade system of the Rigvedic Aryans.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Aryans came to India from Central Asia. By 1500 BCE the Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Coming from central Asia, this large group of nomadic cattle herders crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came in contact with the Indus Valley Civilization.

Detailed explanation-5: -Iron axes and ploughs are the right answers. Agriculture was mainly done with tools such as iron axes and ploughs, besides, these people were also aware of the method of tilling the field by deep ploughing, manuring and sowing with better grains.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Indo-Aryans had several references to the cow in the Rig Veda: One of the epithets of the god Indra was gopati i.e., lord of cattle. The tribal chief was known as janasya gopa. Gojit meant winner of cows.