Following Columbus’s landmark voyage, Spain and Portugal found themselves in a race for global dominance. To prevent open ...

Robert Patrick Newcomb and Richard A. Gordon, co-editors The Ohio State University Press, October 2017 Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies, co-edited by Robert ...

The Treaty of Tordesillas set the stage for Europe’s domination of almost the entire world. ... In his book, “History of the World”, Author J. M. Roberts writes that Pope Alexander VI ...

The Tordesillas Treaty of June 7, 1494, between King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, on one side, and King John II of Portugal on the other, established a new line of ...