WBCS.LIVE practice question

Consider the following travelers who visited India: 1. Ibn Battuta 2. Marco Polo 3. Francois Bernier Arrange them in the correct chronological order of their visit.

Solve this multiple-choice question and check the correct answer with its explanation below.

Answer options

  1. 1-2-3
  2. 2-1-3
  3. 3-1-2
  4. 2-3-1

Correct answer and explanation

Correct answer: 2-1-3

Explanation: ✅ Correct Answer: B) Option 1 (2-1-3) 📚 Explanation: ▪️ Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, visited southern India around the late 13th century (1292 AD). ▪️Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan scholar, arrived in India during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq in the 14th century (1333 AD). ▪️Francois Bernier, a French physician, visited the Mughal Empire much later in the 17th century (1656 AD) during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.