Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

Read the passage and answer the question:

Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street. In this street live many merchants, and there you will find all sorts of rubies, and diamonds, and emeralds, and pearls, and seed-pearls, and clothes, and every other sort of thing there is on Earth and that you may wish to buy. Then you have there every evening a fair where they sell many common horses and nags, and also many citrons, and limes, and oranges, and grapes, and every other kind of garden stuff, and wood; you have all in this street.

Name the foreign traveller who gave the aforementioned vivid description of the 'bazaar' of the Vijayanagara.

Options:

Fernao Nuniz

Domingo Paes

Ibn Battutta

None of the above

Correct Answer:

Domingo Paes

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 2 : Domingo Paes

Domingo Paes gave this vivid description of the 'bazaar' of the Vijayanagara,

"Going forward, you have a broad and a beautiful street. In this street live many merchants, and there you will find all sorts of rubies, and diamonds, and emeralds, and pearls, and seed-pearls, and clothes, and every other sort of thing there is on Earth and that you may wish to buy. Then you have there every evening a fair where they sell many common horses and nags, and also many citrons, and limes, and oranges, and grapes, and every other kind of garden stuff, and wood; you have all in this street."