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How did Spain and Portugal divide lands between themselves in the Americas?
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∙ 10y ago
Spain and Portugal subjected their debate over American land claims to Papal intervention and mediation. Pope Alexander VI wrote the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) which split the world into Spanish and Portuguese dominions. Portugal had all rights to territory east of the mark and Spain had all rights to land west of the mark.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 10y agoThe Treaty of Tordesillas provided for the division of the Latin American colonies.
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What is line Demarcation?
provision of treaty of tordesillas to divide the Americas between Spain and Portugal to colonize.
What was signed to prevent war between Spain and Portugal over land in the Americas?
The Treaty of Tordesillas was the first attempt to divide the Americas between Spain and Portugal.Treaty of Tordesillas
How did Spain and Portugal divide the Americans?
Spain and Portugal divide the Americas by a line called the demarcation. that Pope Alexander decided where to put it.
What was the agreement in 1494 that divided the wealth between Portugal and Spain?
The agreement was called the Treaty of Tordesillas. It did not divide wealth specifically, rather it was the first attempt to divide the spheres of influence in the New World between Portugal and Spain.
The Line of Demarcation was drawn to divide the New World between which two countries?
Spain and Portugal
Why did Alexander VI divide the world between Spain and Portugal?
To prevent interminable war between the two over who could explore where.
What is the dividing line between Atlantic and pacific?
Continental Divide is the drainage that divides sea or ocean. The Great Divide or the Continental Divide of the Americas is the division of the Pacific Ocean watersheds from the Atlantic and Arctic.
What was the imaginary line drawn by the pope divide the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal called?
The treaty responsible for the divide between the world that Spain could colonize and Portugal could colonize was the Treaty of Tordesillas. The name of the line was, surprisingly enough, called the Tordesillas Line.
What is the dividing line between atlantic and pacific watersheds?
Continental Divide is the drainage that divides sea or ocean. The Great Divide or the Continental Divide of the Americas is the division of the Pacific Ocean watersheds from the Atlantic and Arctic.
What two European nations agreed to divide the New World of North and South the US between them in 1494?
Spain and Portugal
What is the main region in Mexico and Central America?
Latin America. Also North America, if you have to divide the Americas between North and South America.
What two European nations agreed to divide the New World of North and South America between them in 1494?
Spain and Portugal, Treaty of Tordesillas
