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A) French B) German C) Spanish D) Italian
A) 10th B) 17th C) 13th D) 15th
A) 30 B) 24 C) 12 D) 18
A) Genghis Khan B) Kublai Khan C) Attila the Hun D) Emperor Taizong
A) The Silk Road Chronicles B) The Travels of Marco Polo C) Journey to the East D) Around the World in 80 Days
A) 20 B) 15 C) 17 D) 10
A) Amber Road B) Incense Trail C) Spice Route D) Silk Road
A) China B) India C) Japan D) Mongolia
A) His grandparents B) His brothers C) His cousins D) His father and uncle
A) Venice B) Florence C) Naples D) Milan
A) Bark B) Silk C) Papyrus D) Leaves
A) Izanagi B) Cipangu C) Yamato D) Nihon
A) Christopher Columbus B) Vasco da Gama C) Ferdinand Magellan D) James Cook
A) Artists B) Soldiers C) Scholars D) Merchants
A) Trade ambassador B) General C) Foreign emissary D) Advisor
A) Crusades B) Hundred Years' War C) War with Genoa D) Peloponnesian War
A) Dante Alighieri B) Rustichello da Pisa C) Leonardo da Vinci D) Giovanni Boccaccio
A) Electricity, airplanes, radios B) Porcelain, gunpowder, paper money C) Plastics, antibiotics, television D) Steam engines, telegraphs, computers
A) British Empire B) Mongol Empire C) Roman Empire D) Ottoman Empire
A) Eleanor B) Aisha C) Roxelana D) Kököchin
A) 1240 B) 1254 C) 1269 D) 1275
A) Kublai B) Niccolò C) Emilione D) Milione
A) 'Million' B) 'Explorer' C) 'Merchant' D) 'Traveler'
A) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto B) Marco Polo C) Giovanni Battista Ramusio D) Niccolò Polo
A) Travelling merchant B) Writer C) Explorer D) Scholar
A) 1280 B) 1275 C) 1254 D) 1269
A) 10 years old B) 20 years old C) 18 years old D) 15 years old
A) Venice B) Beijing C) Constantinople D) Baghdad
A) Silk B) Gold coins C) Spices D) Jewels
A) 1271 B) 1280 C) 1290 D) 1265
A) Doge Enrico Dandolo B) Doge Pietro Gradenigo C) Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo D) Doge Marco Cornaro
A) Constantinople B) Venice C) Beijing D) Acre
A) Thirty B) Seventeen C) Fifteen D) Twenty-one
A) 1285 B) 1275 C) 1295 D) 1305
A) Cannon B) Crossbow C) Trebuchet D) Catapult
A) The Travels of Marco Polo B) Il Milione C) Livres des Merveilles du Monde D) The Book of Marvels
A) Fantina B) Agnese C) Moreta D) Donata Badoèr
A) Bartolomeo B) Rustichello da Pisa C) Pietro d'Abano D) Giovanni Battista Ramusio
A) Frances Wood B) John W. Haeger C) Herbert Franke D) Stephen G. Haw
A) Giovanni Giustiniani B) Donata, his wife C) Friar Benvenuto D) Peter, the Tartar servant
A) The Han dynasty B) The Ming dynasty C) The Yuan dynasty D) The Qing dynasty
A) Stephen G. Haw B) David Morgan C) John W. Haeger D) Igor de Rachewiltz
A) The 'notary validation' rule B) The 'signum manus' rule C) The 'holographic signature' rule D) The 'testamentum scriptum' rule
A) The imperial guard B) A type of ship C) A trade guild D) A religious order
A) Three languages B) Five languages C) Two languages D) Four languages
A) 1322 B) 1323 C) 1330 D) 1325
A) 10 January 1325 B) 9 January 1324 C) June 1324 D) 8 January 1323
A) Peng Hai B) Herbert Franke C) David Morgan D) Ronald Latham
A) Peng Hai B) Herbert Franke C) David Morgan D) Stephen G. Haw
A) Venice City Hall B) The Vatican Archives C) San Lorenzo D) Biblioteca Marciana
A) Marco Polo himself B) The Mongol ruler Kublai Khan C) Chinese emperors D) A Sogdian named Mar-Sargis from Samarkand
A) Beijing B) Yangzhou C) Nanjing D) Shanghai
A) Invisible Cities (1972) B) The Journeyer (1984) C) Messer Marco Polo (1921) D) Marco Millions (1928)
A) Six B) Three C) Five D) Four
A) Herbert Franke B) Peng Hai C) Paul Pelliot D) David Morgan
A) Thirteen B) Twelve C) Eleven D) Ten
A) An elephant B) A tiger C) A dragon D) The Sumatran rhinoceros
A) Dadu B) Bukhara C) Ukek D) Bolghar
A) At sunset B) At noon C) At midnight D) At dawn
A) The Journeyer (1984) B) Invisible Cities (1972) C) Messer Marco Polo (1921) D) Marco Millions (1928)
A) Beijing B) Zaitun C) Dadu D) Shangdu
A) 1321 B) 1305 C) 1319 D) 1299
A) Castilian translation of 1503 B) Elizabethan version by John Frampton in 1579 C) Italian by Giovanni Battista Ramusio in 1559 D) Latin manuscript by Francesco Pipino in 1302
A) San Giovanni B) San Paolo of the Order of Preachers C) San Lorenzo D) The Church
A) Shangdu B) Trebizond on the Black Sea C) Beijing D) Singapore
A) 1310 B) 1299 C) 1305 D) 1321
A) Stephen G. Haw B) Herbert Franke C) John W. Haeger D) David Morgan
A) Igor de Rachewiltz B) Frances Wood C) Peter Jackson D) David Morgan
A) Mercator projection B) The 1453 Fra Mauro map C) Zeno Map D) Ptolemaic map
A) They fought through to a nearby town B) They negotiated with the bandits C) They hid in the desert until morning D) They were rescued by local villagers
A) Xiangwei B) Mar Sarchis C) Boluo D) Saman
A) Matteo Ricci B) Christopher Columbus C) Marco Polo D) Bento de Góis
A) Bellela B) Fantina C) Agnese D) Moreta
A) Brian Dennehy B) Ken Marshall C) Ian Somerhalder D) Ruocheng Ying
A) David O. Morgan B) Historian Frances Wood C) Historian Igor de Rachewiltz D) Sinologist Francis Woodman Cleaves
A) The Yongle Encyclopedia B) Jami' al-tawarikh C) The Travels of Marco Polo D) The Secret History of the Mongols
A) Matteo Ricci B) Piero Falchetta C) Marco Polo D) Giovanni Battista Ramusio
A) Ian Somerhalder B) Mark Eden C) John Cassavetes D) Ken Marshall
A) 8 January 1324 B) 9 January 1323 C) 7 January 1325 D) 10 January 1324
A) A possible Christian-Mongol alliance against Islam. B) The translation of 'The Book of Marvels' into Latin. C) Trade agreements between Europe and China. D) The conversion of Marco Polo to Christianity.
A) There were no Persian books available during his time. B) All Persian sources had been lost by then. C) Polo did not speak Persian. D) The only Persian source mentioning the princess was completed after 1310–1311.
A) 220 soldi B) 100 lire C) 50 soldi D) 300 lire
A) Italian B) Latin C) Arabic D) Franco-Venetian
A) Antonio Montefusco B) Ronald Latham C) Francesco Pipino D) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
A) As a romance or fable B) As a religious text C) As a scientific journal D) As an accurate historical document
A) No B) As an advisor only C) Yes D) Only in some sources
A) They lacked a proper map B) They encountered pirates C) The ships there were not seaworthy D) They did not have enough supplies
A) Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988) B) Invisible Cities (1972) C) The Journeyer (1984) D) The Judas Strain (2007)
A) Grania Davis B) Eugene O'Neill C) Italo Calvino D) John Fusco
A) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. B) Assassin's Creed: Origins. C) Civilization Revolution (2008). D) Age of Empires III.
A) Jacopo d'Acqui B) Francesco Pipino C) Rustichello of Pisa D) Antonio Montefusco
A) Mark Eden B) John Cassavetes C) Ken Marshall D) Kei Tomiyama
A) Giuliano Montaldo B) Denis Belliveau C) Miro Branković D) John Fusco
A) Ian Somerhalder B) Ken Marshall C) Burt Lancaster D) Brian Dennehy
A) Because it was written in a foreign language. B) Because it lacked detailed maps. C) Because Marco Polo refused to share his experiences. D) Because it contained unbelievable stories.
A) Twelve B) Eleven or thirteen C) Five D) Twenty-four
A) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009). B) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. C) Red Dead Redemption II. D) Final Fantasy XV. |