Medieval South Indian History

Ancient and Medival History

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Which of these travellers wrote of the Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire as the most powerful ruler of India in the 15th century?

The Italian traveller Niccolo de Conti

Venetian merchant traveller, Marco Polo

Moroccan scholar, Ibn Battuta

The Arab historian, Al-Mas‘udi

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He was one of the human sources used to create the 1450 Fra Mauro map, which indicated that there was a sea route from Europe around Africa to India.He travelled in India to "Pacamuria", "Helly" and Vijayanagar, capital of the Deccan before 1555.It was in India that he coined the phrase 'Italian of the East' to refer to the Telugu language, which he found had words ending with vowels, similar to Italian.

By: Shubham Tiwari

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