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