Consider the following statements-
1. India had commercial relations with the countries of the west from time immemorial but from the seventh century AD, her sea borne trade passed into the hands of the Arabs, who began to dominate the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
2. It was from the seventh century AD, that the enterprising merchants of Venice and Genos purchased Indian Goods.
3. The geographical discoveries of the last quarter of the fifteenth century deeply affected the commerical relations of the different countries of the world and produced far-reaching consequences in their history.
4. Bartholomew Diaz doubled the Cape of Good Hope, or the Stormy Cape, as he called it, in 1487;
5. Vasco de Gama found out a new route to India and reached the famous port of Calicut on the 17th May, 1498.
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