According to Portuguese writer Nuniz, the women in Vijayanagara Empire were expert in which of the following areas?
- 1.Wrestling
- 2.Astrology
- 3.Accounting
- 4.Soothsaying
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Answer: D. Fernao Nuniz wrote that women in the Vijayanagara palace worked as wrestlers, astrologers, soothsayers and also kept accounts as writers. So all four.
Watch for: Wrestling seems unlikely for women of that era, but Nuniz specifically records it.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Nuniz also mentioned soothsaying.
- B. Wrong because Nuniz also mentioned astrology.
- C. Wrong because Nuniz also mentioned wrestling and accounting.
Source to check: Fernao Nuniz's chronicle, translated in Robert Sewell, A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) (1900)
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