Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of the travels of marco polo and study the map. the city stands at the mouth or entrance of the gulf of kalhat, so that no ship can enter or leave the gulf except by leave of its rulers. the malik of this city thus has a powerful hold over the sultan of kerman, to whom he is subject. for sometimes the sultan imposes some due on the malik of hormuz or one of his brethren, and they refuse to pay it, and the sultan sends an army to enforce payment. how does the map the reader understand the passage? the map the reader understand the elevation of kalhat the map the reader understand the distance to kalhat from sharkh the map the reader understand the size of kalhat the map the reader understand kalhat's location on the gulf of kalhat.

The correct answer is D) the map helps the reader understand Kalhat’s location on the Gulf of Kalhat.  

The map helps the reader to understand the passage because it helps the reader understand Kalhat’s location on the Gulf of Kalhat.  

We the help of the map, the reader can locate the place where the action takes place and the type of region Marco Polo was visiting. Kalhat is a see-line in the North Eastern part of Dhafar. The city is described to be on the shore with a great view of one of the most beautiful Mosques the author had found. It also has many bazaars surrounding the area. Most people who lived there were merchants.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.