Question

The economy of the Vedic period was mainly a combination of ________?

• A. agriculture and animal husbandry
• B. agriculture and industries
• C. agriculture and arms trade
• D. agriculture and cotton trade

Answer 1

Answer:

A. agriculture and animal husbandry

The Vedic period's economy was primarily a combination of pastoralism (animal husbandry) and agriculture The Vedic settlements were favourable for agriculture with presence of a number of rivers in the Indus valley and the Punjab. Reference in Rig-Veda shows that agriculture was the principal occupation of the people in that period. They ploughed the field with oxen. It even mentions that twenty four oxen were attached to a ploughshare at a time for ploughing the land. The cultivated land was known as Urvara or Kshetra.