Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

The Portuguese travelers who visited Vijayanagara city in the 16th century are ______.

A. Abdur Razzaq
B. Fernao Nuniz
C. Nicolo Conti
D. Domingo Paes
E. Duarte Barbosa

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A, B and C only

B, D and E only

A, B and D only

C, D and E only

Correct Answer:

B, D and E only

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2  - B, D and E only

A. Abdur Razzaq (Persian)
B. Fernao Nuniz
C. Nicolo Conti (Italian)
D. Domingo Paes
E. Duarte Barbosa

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.