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:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
A. Nicolo de Conti — this matches III. Italy. He was an Italian trader who visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century.
B. Afanasii Nikitin — this matches IV. Russia. He was a merchant from Russia, also a fifteenth-century visitor.
C. Fernao Nuniz — this matches II. Portugal. With Duarte Barbosa and Domingo Paes, he came from Portugal in the sixteenth century.
D. Abdur Razzaq — this matches I. Persia. He was an ambassador sent by the ruler of Persia.
NCERT (2026-27): “3. Vijayanagara … Finding out about the city 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.” |