Practicing Success
Which of the following is NOT correctly matched in respect of foreign travellers who visited during the Vijayanagar Empire? |
Nicolo Conti : Italy Domingo Paes : France Afanasii Nikitin: Russia Barbosa: Portugal |
Domingo Paes : France |
The correct answer is Option 2 - Domingo Paes : France Domingo Paes was not from France but from Portugal. 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. |