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The Tordesillas Line: How Spain and Portugal Split the World
In 1494, six years after Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope and two years after Columbus first made landfall in the Caribbean, the kings of Spain and Portugal sat down in a small Castilian town and drew a line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Everything east of that meridian belonged to Portugal; everything west, to Spain. But how do you divide an unexplored globe with a treaty? The Treaty of Tordesillas was a bold, almost absurd experiment in geopolitics — and it shaped the map of the Americas, Africa, and Asia for centuries. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpick the…
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