What is the correct chronological order in which the following appeared in India
A. Urban culture
B. Iron plough
C. Punch marked silver coins
D. Gold coins
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B, C, D
The four belong to different ages, so each is placed by when it first appeared: the Harappan towns, then the iron age, then the age of coins, silver first and gold much later.
A. Urban culture — the cities of the Harappan civilisation, from about 2600 BCE, were India's first towns.
B. Iron plough — iron came into use around 1000 BCE, and iron ploughshares spread through the Ganga valley by about the sixth century BCE, raising farm output.
C. Punch marked silver coins — the earliest Indian coins, from about the sixth century BCE, used in the trade of the mahajanapadas.
D. Gold coins — first issued on a large scale by the Kushanas in the first century CE, and later by the Guptas.