COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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America
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Asia
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Reformation
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Ferdinand Magellan
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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. The red vertical line cutting through eastern Brazil represents the divide.
Detailed explanation-2: -In theory, the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence. The treaty amended papal bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493. These declarations had granted Spain an exclusive claim to the entirety of North and South America.
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.