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But John II protested and began negotiations leading to the celebrated Treaty of Tordesillas (June 1494), which gave to Spain all lands west of a line 370 leagues to the west of the Cape Verde Islands. This line, however, reserved Brazil (still apparently unknown) for Portugal.
official agreement between groups of people. Treaty of Tordesillas. noun. (1494) agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the rights to colonize all lands outside of Europe. On June 7, 1494, the governments of Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided their spheres of influence in the "New World" of the Americas.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
Aug 11, 2021 · The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement in 1494 between Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them using an imaginary line down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean. Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas necessary?
- Mark Cartwright
- Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas necessary?The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas permitted the kings of Portugal and Spain to expand their empires but avoid direct competition by not colonising exa...
- What impact did the Treaty of Tordesillas have?The impact of the Treaty of Tordesillas was that Spain colonized parts of the Americas while Portugal concentrated on Brazil, West Africa, and Asia.
Nov 8, 2023 · The territory of Spain today comprises of 195,365 square miles, being principally made up of land on the Iberian Peninsula, sharing borders with Portugal to the West, France to the North, as well as the small principality of Andorra. Spain also controls the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, as well as the two small enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, on ...
In the Treaty of Paris, Spain agreed to free Cuba, and to cede the islands Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States. In addition, the United States agreed to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines (which the Spanish wanted back as the Americans had captured Manila after the August 12 armistice, due to delayed communications).
Within a month, the U.S. Army landed a force to take the islands from Spain, which it succeeded in doing by mid-August 1899. The victory in Cuba took a little longer. In June, seventeen thousand American troops landed in Cuba.
