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Answer 1

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The Portuguese King found out that Spain was sponsoring trips to the new world and me became very angry. Then, the King sent a threatening letter to the Catholic Monarchs and in those, he stated that by the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which was signed in 1479 and confirmed in 1481 with the papal bull Æterni regis, all lands at the south of the Canary Islands were granted to Portugal. Which caused them to go to the Pope, which then created a line to divide the new lands between those two countries, in a way to avoid a war that the Spanish most likely would lose.

Answer 2

It was called The Line of Demarcation, which was a boundary established by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493 to define the spheres of Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the New World.  The line ran north and south 100 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. All new lands lying east of this line were to belong to Portugal, all those to the west to Spain.