It was an agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
Cabinet is a noun (whether it be a wooden cabinet in the kitchen or the <span>President's cabinet)</span>
The state of nature is a theoretical concept in political philosophy which indicates the condition which human beings live, before being formed into a political body. For Thomas Hobbes, human beings exist in a state of nature where all make war upon all. Jean Jacques Rousseau, on the other hand, states that human beings live in a state of nature corrupted by the establishment of political and social bonds.