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