Question

10. State the role of iron in the development of agriculture during the Vedic Age.​

Answer 1

It was because iron was used to make new implements and tools like axes which helped to clear the forests to cultivate lands. With the help of iron plough-heads, sickles and hoes, vast tracts of lands were brought under cultivation. Expansion of agriculture helped in the development of economy.

Answer 2

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• The Vedic age includes the Aryan settlements' culture along  Ganges, Indus, & Yamuna rivers. The early Vedic period is related to the Indus Valley  and the later vedic is associated with the Yamuna-Ganga doab culture.
• The early period was known as the tribal age/iron age & the later age is linked to the "development of agriculture" along the Ganga-Yamuna basin. The discovery of iron further contributed to ancient civilizations' creation.
• It is because iron has been used to manufacture new tools and instruments, such as axes that have helped clear the trees and expand fields.
• Vast tracts of land were cultivated with the aid of iron plough-heads, hoes, & sickles. Agriculture expansion had led to economic growth.

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• The Vedic period, or Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedas were composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
• The Vedas are liturgical texts which formed the basis of the influential Brahmanical ideology, which developed in the Kuru Kingdom, a tribal union of several Indo-Aryan tribes.
• The Vedas contain details of life during this period that have been interpreted to be historical and constitute the primary sources for understanding the period.
• These documents, alongside the corresponding archaeological record, allow for the evolution of the Indo-Aryan and Vedic culture to be traced and inferred.