Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

Match List I with List II.

LIST I
Travellers

 LIST II 
 Countries 

 A. Nicolo de Conti  

 I. Persia

 B. Afanasii Nikitin  

 II. Portugal

 C. Fernao Nuniz

 III. Italy

 D. Abdur Razzaq

 IV. Russia  

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

Correct Answer:

A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

The correct match is:

LIST I
Travellers

 LIST II 
 Countries 

 A. Nicolo de Conti  

 III. Italy

 B. Afanasii Nikitin  

 IV. Russia

 C. Fernao Nuniz

 II. Portugal

 D. Abdur Razzaq

 I. Persia

Explanation:

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.