Common Contracts
1 similar null contracts
JOAQUIM VERÍSSIMO SERRÃOSeptember 26th, 2020
No other agreement between the modern states was as historically important as the treaty that was signed in the Castilian town of Tordesillas on 8 June 1494. The crowns of Castile and Portugal saw the need to establish a lasting peace so that each would pursue the policy of discovery that best suited its national interests. The recognition of two autonomous geographical areas, separated by a line of meridian painstakingly discussed and fully accepted, did not correspond only to the creation of two spheres of influence in the expansionist world: one oriented to the exploration of the South Atlantic and the other towards the New World that had been revealed two years before by Christopher Columbus1.
