Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
Trade between the hill tribes and the plains, c. 1595
This is how Abu’l Fazl describes the transactions between the hill
tribes and the plains in the suba of Awadh (part of present-day Uttar
Pradesh) :
From the northern mountains quantities of goods are carried on
the backs of men, of stout ponies and of goats, such as gold, copper, lead,
musk, tails of the kutas cow (the yak), honey, chuk (an acid composed of
orange juice and lemon boiled together), pomegranate seed, ginger, long
pepper, majith (a plant producing a red dye) root, borax, zedoary (a root
resembling turmeric), wax, woollen stuffs, wooden ware, hawks, falcons,
black falcons, merlins (a kind of bird), and other articles. In exchange
they carry back white and coloured clothes, amber, salt, asafoetida,
ornaments, glass and earthen ware.