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It was intended to resolve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus. In 1481 the papal Bull Aeterni regis had granted all land south of the Canary IslandsComunidad Autonoma deCanarias ( In Detail) Capitals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife Area total % of Spain Ranked 13th 7 447 kmē 1,5% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 8th 1 843 755 4,4% 247,58/kmē Demonym English Spanish to Portugal. In May 1493Events January 4 Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey. March 15 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. July 28 Great fire in Moscow November 19 Christopher Columbus becomes the first Euro The Spanish born Pope Alexander VIAlexander VI ne Rodrigo Borgia ( January 1, 1431 August 18, 1503) pope ( 1492- 1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance. He was born at Xativa, Valencia, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llancol; that of his mother decreed in the Bull Inter caetera that all lands west of a meridian only 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to Portugal, although territory already under Christian rule would remain untouched. Naturally the Portuguese King John IIJoao II of Portugal (English: John II), "the Perfect Prince", fourteenth king of Portugal was born in Lisbon in March 3 1455 and died in Alvor in October 25 1495. He was the son of king Afonso V of Portugal by his wife, Isabel of Coimbra, princess of Port was not happy, so he opened negotiations with King FerdinandFerdinand II of Aragon nicknamed the Catholic ( March 10, 1452 June 23, 1516) was king of Aragon, Castile, Sicily, Naples and Navarre and Count of Barcelona He became Ferdinand V of Castile when he married Isabella I of Castile. They united their two king and Queen Isabella of Spain to move the line to the west, arguing that the meridian would extend all around the globe - limiting Spanish control in AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E. The treaty effectively countered the bull of Alexander VI but it was sanctioned by Pope Julius IIJulius II ne Giuliano della Rovere ( December 5, 1443 February 21, 1513), was pope from 1503 to 1513. He was the son of a brother of Sixtus IV. By his uncle, who took him under his special charge, he was educated among the Franciscans, and latterly sent t in a new bull of 1506.
Very little of the newly divided area had actually been seen, as it was divided according to the treaty. Spain gained lands including all the Americas. The Easternmost part of current Brazil, when it was discovered in 1500 by Pedro Alvarez Cabral, was granted to Portugal. Although the line extended into Asia, at the time accurate measurements of longitude was impossible so uncertainties arose. The line was not strictly enforced - the Spanish did not resist the Portuguese expansion of Brazil across the meridian.
The remaining exploring nations of Europe such as France, England, and the Netherlands were explicitly refused access to the new lands, leaving them only options like piracy, unless they (as they did later) rejected the papal authority to divide undiscovered countries. The view taken by the rulers of these nations is epitomised by the quotation attributed to Francis I of France demanding to be shown the clause in Adam's will excluding his authority from the New World.
With the voyage around the globe of Magellan, a new dispute was born. Although both countries agreed that the line should be considered to be running around the globe, dividing the world in two equal halves, it was not clear where the line should be drawn on the other side of the world. In particular, both countries claimed that the Moluccas (important as a source of spices) lay in their half of the world. After new negotiations, the Treaty of Saragossa of April 22, 1529 decided that the line should lie 297.5 leagues west of the Moluccas. Spain got a monetary compensation in return.