Question
Which foreign traveller’s account estimated that the city of Vijayanagara contained “90,000 men fit to bear arms”?
The correct answer is
Nicolo Conti
Nicolo Conti’s account, recorded by Poggio Bracciolini, gives this estimate for Vijayanagara city. It describes the city’s size and inhabitants; the figure should not be treated as a verified count of the whole empire’s standing army.
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