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Why was an imaginary line drawn running north and south through South America and what was this line called?
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The imaginary line was the Line of Demarcation drawn according to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. It was designed to prevent Spain and Portugal from claiming the same regions and establishing competing colonies in the world, notably the New World. The line was a line of longitude around 42.5° W, about midway between the Portuguese colony in the Cape Verde Islands and the new Spanish possessions in Hispaniola and the Caribbean. The line effectively limited Portugal to a major colony in Brazil, the only modern South American country that extends east of the line.
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∙ 9y agoThe Line of Demarcation split South America into sections for the countries which claimed it. The Line of Demarcation was drawn by Pope Alexander in 1493.
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