Question

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Treaty of Tordesillas was signed between which countries?

• A. Portugal and Italy
• B. Portugal and Spain
• C. Spain and Greece
• D. Spain and Italy

Answer 1

The correct option is B Portugal and Spain

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement between the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them into two spheres of influence. The imaginary dividing line ran down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the Americas to Spain and West Africa and anything beyond the Cape of Good Hope to Portugal.