Arrange the following Primary Activities in correct evolutionary sequence:
(A) Nomadic Herding
(B) Commercial Agriculture
(C) Hunting and Gathering
(D) Subsistence Agriculture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (A), (D), (B)
(C) Hunting and Gathering — first. The earliest human beings lived on the animals they hunted and the plants they gathered.
(A) Nomadic Herding — second. When people realised that hunting could not last, they began to domesticate animals.
(D) Subsistence Agriculture — third. Farmers grow crops mainly for their own use; its primitive form is shifting cultivation.
(B) Commercial Agriculture — fourth. Its types, such as commercial grain cultivation on very large farms, follow subsistence farming.
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. The book does not say in clear words that subsistence agriculture came before commercial agriculture. It only describes hunting and gathering as the activity of the earliest human beings, pastoralism as coming after hunting, and primitive subsistence agriculture before the commercial types of farming, which shows this order.
NCERT (2026-27): “HUNTING AND GATHERING The earliest human beings depended on their immediate environment for their sustenance. They subsisted on: (a) animals which they hunted; and (b) the edible plants which they gathered from forests in the vicinity.” “At some stage in history, with the realisation that hunting is an unsustainable activity, human beings might have thought of domestication of animals.” “Nomadic Herding Nomadic herding or pastoral nomadism is a primitive subsistence activity, in which the herders rely on animals for food, clothing, shelter, tools and transport.” “Subsistence agriculture is one in which the farming areas consume all, or nearly so, of the products locally grown. It can be grouped in two categories — Primitive Subsistence Agriculture and Intensive Subsistence Agriculture.” |