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John II overhauled the old houses and organized the system into two new institutions in Lisbon - the royal trading house, the ''Casa da Mina e Tratos de Guiné'', focused on commercial aspects of African trade (goods, licenses, dues), and the separate royal naval arsenal, the ''Armazém da Guiné'', to handle nautical matters (ship construction, nautical supplies, hiring of crews, etc.) In 1486, after the opening of contact with [[Benin Empire|Benin]], John II established the ''Casa de Escravos'', as a distinct [[slave]]-trading department of the ''Casa da Mina''.
With the discovery of a sea route to [[India]] by [[Vasco da Gama]] in 1497-99, the [[spice trade]] became a new and important activity of the royal trading house, and the old ''Casa'' was renamed ''Casa da Índia e da Guiné'' (the first written reference to a ''Casa da Índia'' was in a royal letter dated 1501).
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