It used Cape Verde as the primary reference for its meridian and was negotiated to adjust conditions set forth the previous year in a bull decreed by Pope Alexander VI.
It used Cape Verde as the primary reference for its meridian and was negotiated to adjust conditions set forth the previous year in a bull decreed by Pope Alexander VI. Rendered moot for the sixty years following the unification of the Iberian Peninsula by Philip II, its primary effect was to preemptively legitimize Pedro Cabral's claim of Brazil for Portugal. For 10 points, name this 1494 agreement that established a line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese conquests in the New World.
It used Cape Verde as the primary reference for its meridian and was negotiated to adjust conditions set forth the previous year in a bull decreed by Pope Alexander VI.
Treaty of {Tordesillas}