_ 185 _ Episodes of the year 1504 In that year and the following year was the first journey of Lopo Soares to India, (1504-1505), Genevieve Bouchon, “The Red Sea and India, Volume III, Mare Luso-Indicum”:(9) The first voyages of discovery are of the very greatest interest, in relation to the history of the Orient and to that of Portugal. Those who took part in these expeditions were the last witnesses of a world that those very enterprises would soon cause to decline. In widening the field of traditional activities of the medieval world, they grasped the whole essential of the economic and social structures of the lands of the Indian Ocean, at the very time when the Muslim communities enjoyed absolute control of the maritime (9) Document no. and reference.
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