Stock Photo: Exploration Monument And Astrolabe In Lisbon, Portugal
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The Padrao dos Descobrimentos, or the Exploration Monument, honors the intrepid Portuguese explorers whose influence was vast, in Asia, Africa, and South America. More specifically, the monuments celebrates the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries when Portuguese ships set off from this spot to explore and trade with India, the Orient and the Americas. Not forgotten is the large Astrolabe, the navigational device invented by the ancient Greeks and improved significantly by the Arabs. Ironically, the Arab Moors were expelled from Portugal just as Portugal was in its ascendency.
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