Also.......Spain and Portugal..........Pope Alex the 6th told Portugal it could have the East side of the entire planet..........wow, a lot of land for such a small country.........and that Spain could have the west........teh earth is a sphere,,,,,,,,but b/c back then cartographers were German......Germany is smack in the middle of a 2 d map......


n 1494......Pope Alex the 6th.......split the world in two.........

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The treaty was signed by Spain, 2 July 1494 and by Portugal, 5 September 1494. ... On 4 May 1493 the Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), an Aragonese from ...

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Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic Llançol i de Borja (Valencian pronunciation: .... and was ratified by Spain on 2 July 1494 and Portugal on 5 September 1494.

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Nov 4, 2014 - (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at ... To accommodate them, the Spanish-born pope Alexander VI issued bulls ...