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History-the treaty of tordesillas

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They wanted the other countries to accept them as the rulers of the new lands.
They asked Pope Alexander the 6th to declare that they rightfully belonged to Spain.
Alexander divided the new world and outside Europe into two.
The world was divided into two.The eastern part went to Portugal whose sailors had now found a route to the East by way of the Cape of Good hope at the southern tip of Africa and the western portion went to Spain because she had first discovered land there.The position was longitude 50 degrees west.
The pope declared that all inhabitants of the western portion should be converted to the Catholic faith.
In 1492,Spain and Portugal signed the treaty.It was called the treaty of Tordesillas.
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