One of the main ways in which Spain benefited from the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas was that it clarified that certain lands in the New World that were in dispute (since Portugal had also claimed them previously) would go to Spain, thus enlarging the empire.
Answer: Columbus thought he had discovered India.
Explanation:
This was actually a surprising factor because after discovering America, it turned out that Columbus all along thought he had discovered India. That is why the native population was called Indians. After the first expedition, Columbus visited America twice more. The original expedition sailed to the Bahamas, and the next two led by Columbus ended up in Cuba and Haiti.
Profiting from the rivalry between the Maharaja and the Zamorin , the Portuguese were well received and seen as allies, getting a permit to build a fort (Fort Manuel) and a trading post that were the first European settlement in India.
Jefferson was afraid of the costs of loose construction of the powers delegated to the national gov’t in the Constitution