<span>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.</span>
B) <span>The destruction in Constantinople allowed him to build new structures representative of his reign.</span>
Hi there.
your answer is: <span>"The natives were not legal owners of the land and we were justified in our treatment of them."
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