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The name is a meridian. It is located 371 Spanish Leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.
Both Spain and Portugal wanted to protect their claims and they turned to pope Alexander VI for help. In 1493 he drew a line of demarcation, an imaginary line, down the middle of the world north and south to the poles and all the land west was controlled by Spain and the land east was controlled by porugal. Porugal compained that the favor was in Spain so they moved the line west and that is how they divided the unexplored world
they moved west becaUse thEY were loocking for a bether life
Mormons moved west to escape religious scrutiny.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
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France possessed most of the current US west of the line of demarcation. Much of it would be obtained in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.
The line of demarcation denoted the divide between the lands of Portugal and the lands of Spain. All lands to the east of the line of demarcation belonged to Portugal and all lands to the west of the line belonged to Spain.