Arrange the following technological developments in a chronological order.
(A) Information and Computers
(B) Development of Agriculture
(C) Sanitation and Medical
(D) Industrial Development
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B), (D), (C), (A)
(B) Development of Agriculture — first. Agriculture developed and spread about 12,000 years before present.
(D) Industrial Development — second. The Industrial stage comes in the eighteenth century, near 1750.
(C) Sanitation and Medical — third. It comes after Transportation, close to 1900.
(A) Information and Computers — last. It is the latest stage, near the present.
Note 1: This question is taken from the pre-rationalised NCERT book. The latest edition (2026-27) does not have this part. An extract of the pre-rationalised NCERT book is given below for the benefit of students.
Note 2: All four steps of this order are labels along one rising population curve in a figure. Read a figure from its left edge to its right edge.
Pre-rationalised NCERT:
Fig. 2.2: Resource, Technology and Population Growth |
