HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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It ended a war between Spain and Britain over control in the Americas
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It established a Portuguese colony on the west coast of Africa
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It divided claims in South America and the Caribbean between Spain and Portugal
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas neatly divided the “New World” into land, resources, and people claimed by Spain and Portugal.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Treaty of Tordesillas successfully arbitrated which lands could be ruled by Spain and which could be ruled by Portugal by creating a boundary “three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.” This line ran from the North to South Poles.
Detailed explanation-3: -But Portugal’s discovery of the highly valued Moluccas in 1512 caused Spain to argue in 1518 that the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the earth into two equal hemispheres. After the surviving ships of Magellan’s fleet visited the Moluccas in 1521, Spain claimed that those islands were within its western hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tordesillas drew a line roughly 300 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands and declared all new lands east of that land belonged to Portugal, while all lands to the west belonged to Spain.