HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal.
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forced them to go to war with Spain.
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encouraged privateers to attack treasure ships.
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gave Portugal exclusive trading rights in Asia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The events leading to the Treaty of Tordesillas began when Columbus returned from his first voyage. Spain and Portugal competed in the attempt to obtain their desired rights of navigation and conquest in the Atlantic Ocean and to be the first Europeans to the Indies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even though the treaty ended up giving Portugal significantly less land, the Portuguese monarch continued to honor it as a result of its diplomatic history. Other European nations, such as England, France, and the Netherlands, simply chose to completely ignore the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pope Alexander VI published a bull, ‘Inter caetera’, to divide the New World between Spain and Portugal. It decreed that all lands west and south of a meridian line 100 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde islands rightfully belonged to Spain.