Practicing Success
Which among the following travellers visited the city of Vijayanagara during the 15th century? (A) Domingo Paes Choose the correct answer from the options given below: |
(B), (C) and (E) only (C), (D) and (E) only (A), (B) and (D) only (B), (C) and (D) only |
(B), (C) and (E) only |
The correct answer is Option (1) - (B), (C) and (E) only The following travellers visited the city of Vijayanagara during the 15th century: (B) Abdur Razzaq (A) Domingo Paes and (D) Fernao Nuniz came to the Vijayanagara Empire in the sixteenth century. A large number of inscriptions of the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas recording donations to temples as well as describing important events have been recovered. Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century. |