Below: BRAZIL
as a colony of Portugal
On June 7, 1494, the governments of
Spain and Portugal agreed to the "Treaty of
Tordesillas", named by the city in
Spain
it was created. The Treaty of Tordesillas neatly
divided the “New World” of the Americas between the
then
two
superpowers. Spain and Portugal divided the
New World by drawing a north-to-south line of
demarcation in the
Atlantic
Ocean, about 555 kilometers or 345 miles west of the
Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of northwestern
Africa then controlled by Portugal. All lands EAST
of that line were claimed by Portugal.
All lands WEST
of that line were claimed by Spain .
BRAZIL after
the explorers expanded the country into ex-Spanish
DOMINIONS
Interesting
to realize where the EQUATOR goes across the Northern
states of Brazil
