Match List I with List II:
| LIST I (Traders) | LIST II (Countries) | ||
| A. | Nicolo de Conti | I. | England |
| B. | Duarte Barbosa | II. | Italy |
| C. | Peter Mundy | III. | Russia |
| D. | Afanasii Nikitin | IV. | Portugal |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
A. Nicolo de Conti — this matches II. Italy. He was an Italian trader who visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century.
B. Duarte Barbosa — this matches IV. Portugal. Duarte Barbosa came from Portugal in the sixteenth century; he visited India in 1518.
C. Peter Mundy — this matches I. England. Peter Mundy (1600-67), a seventeenth-century traveller, came from England.
D. Afanasii Nikitin — this matches III. Russia. He was a merchant from Russia who visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century.
NCERT (2026-27): “3. Vijayanagara … Finding out about the city 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.”
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