(i) Some of the wealth that obtained was kept by the leaders, while some was given to the priests and the rest was distributed amongst the people.
(ii) Some of the wealth was used for the performance of yajnas or sacrifices in which offerings were made into the fire.

(i) There are many prayers in the Rigveda for cattle, children (especially sons) and horses
(ii) Horses were yoked to chariots which were used in battles, fought to capture cattle.
(iii) Battles were also fought for land, which was an important form of pasture and for growing hardy crops that ripened quickly, such as barley.

Historians read the literary sources carefully and take clues from them. On the basis of such information, they try to create an understanding of the socio-cultural political set- up and place it in the right context and time.

Other languages used in the sub-continent belong to different families. For instance, those used in the North-East belong to the Tibero-Burrnan family. South Indian languages like, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to the Dravidian family. The languages spoken in Jharkhand and parts of Central India belong to the Ausrro-Asiatic family.

 Sanskrit is part of a family of languages known as Indo-European. Some Indian languages such as Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri and Sindhi, and many European languages such as English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish belong to this family. They are called a family, because they originally had words in common.
For example, the words 'matr' (Sanskrit), 'rna' (Hindi) and 'mother' (English).

(i) It is easy to make out the skeleton of a child from its small size. However, there are no major differences in the bones of a girl and a boy.
(ii) Sometimes, people decide on the basis of what is found with the skeleton. For instance, if a skeleton is found with jewellery, it is generally thought to be that of a woman.
(iii) However, there are problems with this. Often, men also wore ornaments.
(iv) A better way of figuring out the sex of a skeleton is to look at the bone structure. The hip or the pelvic area of women is generally larger to enable child bearing. These distinctions are based on modern skeletal studies.

(i) Iron metal was used for the preparation of the above equipments.
(ii) Megalithic equipments were found from burials