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Glossary Term – Event

Inter Caetera

Pope Alexander VI issued the Inter caetera, a 1493 papal bull granting significant lands to Spain at the expense of Portugal’s New World ambitions.

Glossary Term – Event

Treaty of Tordesillas

The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 moved the boundary between Spanish and Portuguese lands in the New World. The line of demarcation established a year earlier by the pope’s papal bull Inter Caetera shifted 1,000 miles westward, with the result that Brazil (when it was discovered) came under Portuguese control.

Glossary Term – Person

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503), who was elected pope in 1492, issued the Inter caetera, which divided lands in the New World between Spain and Portugal.