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The Pope split the Land of the New World between Spain and Portugal they called this split the line of Demarcation which was eventually moved again through the Treaty of Tordesillas

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The Line of Demarcation divided undiscovered land in the world between .?

Spain and Portugal


How do you use the term treaty to explain how Spain and Portugal divided the Americas?

The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the new world between Spain and Portugal.


What country divided the world with Portugal?

spain


How did Spain and Portugal split?

The Pope divided the new world into what he thought was half. Spain got west and Portugal got east. Portugal ended up with just Brazil and Spain got everything else.The pope divided the world in "half." The Line of Demarcation was created to divide the world. Portugal got the land on the east while Spain got the land on the west, which was a greater quantity.


The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the uncharted lands of the New World between which two countries?

Spain and Portugal


How did pope Alexander VI address the rivalry between Spain and Portugal over new trade routes?

He divided the extra-European world between Spain and Portugal in the bull Inter caetera (1493).


How did the pope settle a dispute between Portugal and Spain?

he divided the world with an imaginary line


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 an imaginary line that divided settlement rights around the world between which two countries?

Spain and Portugal


Who was the Pope who quickly divided the colonial world of 1493 into areas for Spain and Portugal?

That was Pope Alexander VI.


Spain and Portugal agreed to divide ownership of the entire unexplored world?

Not exactly. Spain and Portugal divided the "Newly Discoverd" lands outside Europe with the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 and the Treaty of Zaragoza in 1529.


What split new land in the Americas between Spain and Portugal?

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the land between the two. The land to the East belonged to Spain and the land to the West belonged to Portugal.