Arjun, a history teacher, is planning a lesson on how the writings of travellers help us know the past. He gathers several accounts. One, written in the fifteenth century, describes a great city of south India as seen by an envoy sent by a Persian-speaking ruler. Another is by an official of a large empire, who wrote down what he saw of village life during his tours. Arjun also wants his class to place three famous foreign visitors to the subcontinent in time and trace where each came from.
The official in Arjun's second account served an empire whose administrators sometimes travelled within it and recorded their observations. Which empire was it?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → The Mughal Empire
Some travellers did not go to distant lands. In the Mughal Empire, administrators sometimes travelled within the empire and wrote down what they observed.
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