they couldn't own other land because it was already owned by the dutch and the Spanish.
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∙ 2011-04-20 22:14:46Anonymous
they couldn't own other land because it was already owned by the D
utch and the Spanish.
cuz they were
Date to 1492.
Hernan Cortes
There are claims that the Canaries/ the Canary Islands were found by the Portuguese as early as 1336
Spain protected it's territory by force of arms.
because it made it harder to get there
Limited or special jurisdiction
small claims court
The basis of the dispute was over European imperial greed and expansionist ambitions. The Americas were not Europe's to take per se, but their political logic was based on claiming that which they landed on first as their own. This dispute between Spanish and Portuguese land claims in America ultimately lead to a Papal intervention and decree mediating the parties.
Christianity predominates in Europe and in the Americas, but it also claims adherents in virtually every country of the world.
They overpowered Native Americans, they built borderlands sorry i forgot the other ones
Portugal and Spain