City Planning|Agriculture|Religion Of Indus People (सिंधु लोगों का धर्म)|Summary

Religion Of Indus People (सिंधु लोगों का धर्म)|Social Life Of Indus People (सिंधु लोगों का सामाजिक जीवन)|Funeral Rites (अंत्येष्टि संस्कार) |Decline Of Indus Civilization (सिंधु सभ्यता का पतन)|Summary

General Introduction Of Jain Religion (जैन धर्म का परिचय)|Summary

Harppa Civilization (हड़प्पा सभ्यता)|Origin Of Indus Valley Civilization (सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता की उत्पत्ति)|Chronology Of Indus Civilization (सिंधु सभ्यता का कालक्रम)|Expansion Of Indus Civilization (सिंधु सभ्यता का विस्तार)|Facts (तथ्य)|Contemporary Of Indus Civilization (सिंधु सभ्यता की समकालीन सभ्यता)|OMR

City Planning (शहर नियोजन)|Art And Culture (कला और संस्कृति)|Economic Life (आर्थिक जीवन)|Agriculture (कृषि)|OMR

Secularism (धर्मनिरपेक्षता)|State And Religion (राज्य और धर्म)|Preamble (प्रस्तावना)|OMR|Summary

Secularism (धर्मनिरपेक्षता)|State And Religion (राज्य और धर्म)|Preamble (प्रस्तावना)|OMR|Summary

Civilization Or Culture (सभ्यता या संस्कृति)|Indus valley Civilization Or Harappa Civilization (सिन्धु घाटी की सभ्यता या हड़प्पा सभ्यता)|Origin And Development Of Indus Civilization (सिंधुसभ्यता या हड़प्पा सभ्यता का उद्भव एवं विस्तार)|Charls Mashon (चार्ल्स मेसन)|Indus Civilization (सिंधु सभ्यता)|Mohanjodaro (मोहनजोदडो)|Quiz|OMR|Summary

Not all agricultural societies become civilizations, but no civilization can become one without passing through the stage of agriculture. This is because at some stage in the development of agriculture, as productivity improves, not all people would need to be engaged in producing or procuring food. A significant number of people could be freed up to pursue other activities such as building walls or monuments for new cities, making new tools, weapons and jewellery, organizing long-distance trade, creating new artistic masterpieces, coming up with new inventions, keeping accounts, and perhaps constructing new public infrastructure such as irrigation canals that further improve the productivity of agriculture, thus realizing even more people to do new things. This can happen, of course, only if a society that has transitioned to high-productivity agriculture has also, at some stage in its evolution, found a way to channel the bonanza of free time into other work fruitfully. In the ancient world, this often involved creating new ideologies and new hierarchies or power structures to coerce or otherwise convince large groups of people to devote their time to the new tasks for very little reward. What kind of agriculture based societies would emerge as civilizations ?

Not all agricultural societies become civilizations, but no civilization can become one without passing through the stage of agriculture. This is because at some stage in the development of agriculture, as productivity improves, not all people would need to be engaged in producing or procuring food. A significant number of people could be freed up to pursue other activities such as building walls or monuments for new cities, making new tools, weapons and jewellery, organizing long-distance trade, creating new artistic masterpieces, coming up with new inventions, keeping accounts, and perhaps constructing new public infrastructure such as irrigation canals that further improve the productivity of agriculture, thus realizing even more people to do new things. This can happen, of course, only if a society that has transitioned to high-productivity agriculture has also, at some stage in its evolution, found a way to channel the bonanza of free time into other work fruitfully. In the ancient world, this often involved creating new ideologies and new hierarchies or power structures to coerce or otherwise convince large groups of people to devote their time to the new tasks for very little reward. People as groups were convinced to do new work through

Not all agricultural societies become civilizations, but no civilization can become one without passing through the stage of agriculture. This is because at some stage in the development of agriculture, as productivity improves, not all people would need to be engaged in producing or procuring food. A significant number of people could be freed up to pursue other activities such as building walls or monuments for new cities, making new tools, weapons and jewellery, organizing long-distance trade, creating new artistic masterpieces, coming up with new inventions, keeping accounts, and perhaps constructing new public infrastructure such as irrigation canals that further improve the productivity of agriculture, thus realizing even more people to do new things. This can happen, of course, only if a society that has transitioned to high-productivity agriculture has also, at some stage in its evolution, found a way to channel the bonanza of free time into other work fruitfully. In the ancient world, this often involved creating new ideologies and new hierarchies or power structures to coerce or otherwise convince large groups of people to devote their time to the new tasks for very little reward. Which one of the following statements is true according to the author ?