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