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Rivalries between Spanish and Portuguese interests in the New World and the East Indies threatened to boil over into religious civil war over rights to colonize various parts of the world. In an effort to create peace Pope Alexander VI divided the world in two parts and authorized the Spanish and the Portuguese to colonize them. While the Portuguese dominated the Spice trade their triumph was later eclipsed by the amount of Gold and New world products that Spain brought back.
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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.
What separated the spanish half of the world from the Portuguese half in 1493?
The answer I think you are looking for is the Treaty of Tordesillas, intially set out by the Pope at the time, Alexander VI. It was an imaginary line that ran from the west of the Portuguese Cape Verde Islands and effectively granted Spain the Americas and granted to Portugal Africa, India and the East Indies.
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divide in two
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No
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to simply "half" Possibly "split"
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