Arrange the following primary activities in the chronological order.…

Arrange the following primary activities in the chronological order.

(A) Nomadic Herding
(B) Primitive Subsistence Agriculture
(C) Hunting and Gathering
(D) Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (C), (A), (B), (D)

(C) Hunting and Gathering — first. Gathering and hunting are the oldest economic activity known.

(A) Nomadic Herding — second. Once people realised that hunting is an unsustainable activity, they began to domesticate animals.

(B) Primitive Subsistence Agriculture — third. This is shifting cultivation, done with very primitive tools such as sticks and hoes.

(D) Intensive Subsistence Agriculture — last. It is practised in the densely populated regions of monsoon Asia, where small holdings are used intensively.

Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. The book does not give a date for each activity. It calls hunting and gathering the oldest economic activity and says that domestication of animals came after it. It then describes primitive subsistence agriculture, done with very primitive tools, before intensive subsistence agriculture.

NCERT (2026-27): “HUNTING AND GATHERING … Gathering and hunting are the oldest economic activity known.”

“PASTORALISM At some stage in history, with the realisation that hunting is an unsustainable activity, human beings might have thought of domestication of animals.”

“Subsistence Agriculture … 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.”

“Primitive Subsistence Agriculture Primitive subsistence agriculture or shifting cultivation is widely practised by many tribes in the tropics, especially in Africa, south and central America and south east Asia (Fig. 4.7). The vegetation is usually cleared by fire, and the ashes add to the fertility of the soil. Shifting cultivation is thus, also called slash and burn agriculture. The cultivated patches are very small and cultivation is done with very primitive tools such as sticks and hoes.”