What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
[[File:Spain_and_Portugal.png|right|thumb|400x400px|Lines dividing the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal: the 1494 Tordesillas meridian (purple) and the 1529 Zaragoza antimeridian (green)]] The '''Treaty of Tordesillas''' was a [[treaty]] between [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]] in 1494. The countries decided to divide up all the [[land]] in the [[Americas]] between Portugal and Spain. However, [[Indigenous peoples|Natives]] had no say in this treaty.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jun 7, 1494 CE: Treaty of Tordesillas {{!}} National Geographic Society|url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/treaty-tordesillas|access-date=2022-07-30|website=education.nationalgeographic.org}}</ref> The Spanish [[Pope Alexander VI]] was the [[Pope]] at the time of the treaty. The Pope drew an imaginary line on a map. This line was 2,193 [[kilometer]]s to the west of the [[Cape Verde]] Islands. He gave [[Portuguese Empire|Portugal]] the land to the east of this line and gave [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] the land to the west of this line.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Demarcation Lines|url=https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/spice-islands/demarcation-lines.html|access-date=2022-07-30|website=library.princeton.edu}}</ref> The purpose of the treaty was to resolve conflict.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-04-12|title=Treaty of Tordesillas: The 1494 Decision Still Influencing Today's World|url=https://www.thehistoryreader.com/world-history/treaty-tordesillas-1494-decision-still-influencing-todays-world/|access-date=2022-07-30|website=The History Reader|language=en-US}}</ref> King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and Queen [[Isabella of Castile]] of Spain signed this treaty in [[Tordesillas]], Spain. This is where the treaty got its name.<ref>Emma Helen Blair, ed., ''The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803'' (Cleveland, Ohio: 1903). [[Frances Gardiner Davenport]], ed., ''European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies to 1648'' (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1917), 1