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Why Was the Treaty of Tordesillas Impossible to Enforce? - The Treaty of Tordesillas and the Unenforceable Atlantic Line | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the spring of 1493, Christopher Columbus returned from a voyage he believed had reached Asia, inadvertently triggering a diplomatic crisis between Portugal and Castile. King John II of Portugal argued the new lands fell within his established Atlantic rights, bringing the two Iberian crowns to the brink of war. To resolve this tension, negotiators met in 1494 at the town of Tordesillas, where they drew a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, allocating zones of expansion to…
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