The treaty was important for the division of Latin America and for the establishment of Spain in the Western Pacific. However, it quickly became obsolete in North America and later in Asia and Africa, where it influenced colonization. It was ignored by other European nations, and with the decline of Spanish and Portuguese power, the countries of origin were unable to hold many of their claims, let alone extend them into poorly studied areas. Thus, with sufficient support, it has become possible for any European state to colonize open spaces, or those held weakly by Lisbon or Madrid. With the fall of Malacca to the Dutch, the VOC (Dutch East India Company) took control of Portuguese possessions in Indonesia and claimed Western New Guinea and Western Australia as New Holland. Eastern Australia remained in the Spanish half of the world until it was claimed by James Cook for Britain in 1770. The attitude towards the treaty of other governments was expressed by Francis I, who declared: “The sun shines for me as it does for others. I would very much like to see the Adam`s will clause that should deprive me of my share of the world. [46] The shared possessions sanctioned by the treaty continued even when Spain and Portugal were united under a single king between 1580 and 1640, until the treaty was replaced by the Treaty of Madrid of 1750. On January 13, 1750, King John V of Portugal and Ferdinand VI signed the throne. From Spain, the Treaty of Madrid, in which both parties attempted to establish the borders between Brazil and Spanish America, and admitted that the Treaty of Tordesillas, as envisaged in 1494, had been replaced and was considered null and void. Spain was recognized as having sovereignty over the Philippines, while Portugal would preserve the Amazon basin area.
Portugal would abandon the colony of Sacramento on the north bank of the Plata River in present-day Uruguay and at the same time receive the territory of the Seven Missions. [47] Indonesia took possession of Dutch New Guinea in 1962 and substantiated its claim by stating that the Majapahit Empire had included Western New Guinea and was part of the Treaty of Tordesillas. [Citation needed] Sources: Max Savelle, The Origins of American Diplomacy: The International History of Angloamerica, 1492–1763 (New York: Macmillan, 1967); The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 carefully divided the “New World” into lands, resources and peoples claimed by Spain and Portugal. The red vertical line that crosses eastern Brazil represents the gap. The treaty worked well for the Spanish and Portuguese empires, but less so for the 50 million people already living in established communities in America. the shallow, low plain that sometimes forms from sedimentary deposits at the mouth of a river. Prince Henry the Navigator (aka Infant Dom Henrique, 1394-1460) had organized Portuguese expeditions to explore and develop the Islands of the North Atlantic, but his ambitions in the Canary Islands were thwarted several times. Spanish troops and indigenous Guanches repelled the Portuguese three times, but the issue was not resolved.
Spain and Portugal were at war between 1474 and 1479, and during this period there was a brief occupation of Santiago in the Cape Verdean group by Spanish forces. The war ended with the Peace Treaty of Alcáçovas-Toledo (1479-80), an agreement that also saw the first attempts to regulate which geographical areas should belong to the Spaniards and which to the Portuguese. Spain`s claim to the Canary Islands was recognized, as was Portugal`s claim to Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde and all trade in West Africa. The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed by Chile in the 20th century. It was used to defend the principle of an Antarctic sector extending along a meridian to the South Pole, as well as the claim that the Spanish (or Portuguese) Treaty made all the unknown lands south of the pole. [48] a way of doing things that has been passed down from one generation to the next. Privileges in all regions of the East. The two Iberian powers formally accepted the division of the globe by the pope by signing the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. With papal approval, Spain and Portugal had thus divided the world into two absolutely exclusive spheres in which ships from other European states were not allowed to sail. After learning of the trip sponsored by Castile, the Portuguese king sent a threatening letter to the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, in which he explained that by the Treaty of Alcáçovas signed in 1479 and by the papal bull Æterni regis of 1481, which granted Portugal all the countries south of the Canary Islands, all the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus belonged. in fact, in Portugal. The Portuguese king also said that he was already making arrangements for a fleet (an armada led by Francisco de Almeida) to leave shortly and take possession of the new lands.
[Citation needed] After reading the letter, the Catholic Monarchs knew that they had no military power in the Atlantic that could rival the Portuguese, so they sought a diplomatic outcome. [Citation needed] On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI decreed that the throne was granted. (Rodrigo Borgia), an Aragonese native of Valencia, in the bull Inter caetera that all countries west of a pole-to-pole line 100 miles west of one of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Castile, although the region was to remain intact under Christian rule from Christmas 1492. [10] The bull did not mention Portugal or its lands, so Portugal could not claim the newly discovered lands, even if they were east of the line. .