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experiences. The travelogues written by them are Macro Polo has written
a major source of about a coconut tree which
information during those he saw for the first time in
times. Some of the important India : “It is as tall as a tall
travellers who wrote their building, with no branches
experiences are Al-Biruni , and leaves at the top, but
Ibn Battuta , Marco Polo , having fruits as large as a
Nicolo etc. These travellers human head.” Marco Polo
have described India vividly. Ibn Batuta Just Think!

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Marco Polo has been called the prince of medieval What are the names of European travellers who
travellers. visited India during the medieval period?

v History is divided into three periods—ancient period, medieval period and modern period.
v India, during the medieval period, comprised of a vast area ranging from Afghanistan in the west to
Myanmar in the east.
v The names of places underwent a change during the medieval period with some exceptions.
v The sources of information are two—archaeological and literary.
v Archaeological sources include inscriptions on buildings, coins, rocks, pillars etc.
v Literary sources comprise of different types of books written by people.
v We find some variation in information in different books because they were copied by scribes by hand.

A. Tick (3) the right option :

1. ______________ has written about a coconut tree.
(a) Marco Polo (b) Firishta (c) Kalhana
2. A/An ______________ is a story of a person written by himself.
(a) biography (b) autobiography (c) none of these
3. ______________ was written by Gulbadan Begum.

(a) Humayun Nama (b) Akbarnama (c) Tuglaqnama
4. ______________ is a famous book on the history of Kashmir.
(a) Babur-nama (b) Prithviraj Raso (c) Rajatarangini
5. ______________ is the old name of India continue to exist even today.
(a) Bharat (b) Kashi (c) both of these

6. The two sources of information are ______________ and ______________ .
(a) literary (b) archaeological (c) none of these

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