It was<span> a </span>treaty between Portugal and Spain in 1494 in which they agreed to divide up all the land in the Americas between the two of them, no matter who was already living there. (I know, really stupid!) They divided the New World by drawing a line in the Atlantic Ocean, <span>All lands east of that line were claimed by Portugal. All lands west of that line were claimed by Spain.
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This is why m</span>ost Latin American nations are Spanish-speaking countries, for instance, but Portuguese is the leading official language<span> in Brazil, because Portugal took Brazil and Spain took most of the other nations. </span><span>
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C. to show that the route to the west was not dangerous
Answer:
City of Hiroshima
Explanation:
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb."
Answer:
Texas
Explanation:
Texas was it's own independent country before joining the United States.
