Emanuelis Lusitan:

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Portugal in the Gulf The very rare oration of obedience delivered by Pacheco, which secured Portugal the rights to control and develop all lands in the East, whether known or unknown, which would result in over 100 years of control over the Persian Gulf. In 1498 Portugal and Spain had split the world in two with a line through the Atlantic. After the capture of Malacca by the Portuguese in 1511, King Manuel dispatched letters to Rome informing the Papacy of Portugal's progress, hoping to claim the rest of Asia for Portugal. He was helped largely by Pope Leo X, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, being the defacto head of the Medicis and largely pro-Portuguese. In 1514 Manuel sent an Embassy of obedience to Rome led by Tristão da Cunha. Pacheco, a professor of law, was on this Embassy and delivered the oration of obedience on behalf of Manuel. The Embassy was a great popular success, featuring leopards, Persian horses, slaves from India, and above all a trained elephant which bowed three times before the Pope and squirted water over the population. The papal bull granted by Leo X, Praecelsae Devotionis, reaffirmed Portugal's claims over Africa as well as "All unfrequented places recovered, discovered, found and acquired by Manuel and his successors" in the East, giving Portugal a trading and colonial monopoly in Asia and Arabia. It was under these auspices that Afonso de Albuquerque had conquered the Kingdom of Hormuz, which stretched from Bandar Abbas and Hormuz Island down a

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