can you describe to me the areas of spanish and portuguese colonization?

Answer 1

Hi well I think you mean the areas established by The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal &, Spain(Castilla-Aragon under the sanction of Alexander the VI, a Spanish Pope.

The treaty Tordesillas, in Portuguese Tratado de Tordesilhas was signed at the city of Tordesillas (Valladolid, Spain), June 7, 1494, and it divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe into an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa).

This was about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands (already Portuguese) and the islands discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Spain), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antilia (Cuba and Hispaniola). The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain.

The treaty was ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2, 1494 and by Portugal, September 5, 1494. The other side of the world would be divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Saragossa or Treaty of Zaragoza, signed on April 22, 1529, which specified the anti-meridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas.

The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to resolve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus. In 1481 the papal Bull Aeterni regis had granted all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal. On 4 May 1493 the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the bull Inter caetera that all lands west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain, although territory under Christian rule as of Christmas 1492 would remain untouched.

The bull did not mention Portugal or its lands, so Portugal could not claim newly discovered lands even if they were east of the line. Another bull, Dudum siquidem, entitled Extension of the Apostolic Grant and Donation of the Indies and dated September 25, 1493, gave all mainlands and islands then belonging to India to Spain, even if east of the line.

The Portuguese King John II the navigator was not pleased with that arrangement, feeling that it gave him far too little land — it prevented him from possessing India, his near term goal (as of 1493, Portuguese explorers had only reached the east coast of Africa). He opened negotiations with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to move the line to the west and allow him to claim newly discovered lands east of the line. The treaty effectively countered the bulls of Alexander VI and was sanctioned by Pope Julius II in a new bull of 1506.

Very little of the newly divided area had actually been seen, as it was only divided according to the treaty. Spain gained lands including most of the Americas. The easternmost part of current Brazil, when it was discovered in 1500 by Pedro Álvares Cabral, was granted to Portugal. The line was not strictly enforced — the Spanish did not resist the Portuguese expansion of Brazil across the meridian.

The treaty was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal. It was superseded by the 1750 Treaty of Madrid which granted Portugal control of the lands it occupied in South America. However, the latter treaty was immediately repudiated by Spain.

The Treaty of Tordesillas only specified its demarcation line in leagues from the Cape Verde Islands. It did not specify the line in degrees, nor did it identify the specific island or the specific length of its league. Instead, the treaty stated that these matters were to be settled by a joint voyage, which never occurred. The number of degrees can be determined via a ratio of marine leagues to degrees which applies to any sized Earth or via a specific marine league applied to the true size of the Earth.

Initially, the line of demarcation did not encircle the Earth. Instead, Spain and Portugal could conquer any new lands they were the first to discover, Spain to the west and Portugal to the east, even if they passed each other on the other side of the globe.] But Portugal's discovery of the highly valued Moluccas in 1512 caused Spain to argue in 1518 that the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the Earth into two equal hemispheres.

They finally agreed via the 1529 Treaty of Saragossa (or Zaragoza) that Spain would relinquish its claims to the Moluccas upon the payment of 350,000 ducats of gold by Portugal to Spain. To prevent Spain from encroaching upon Portugal's Moluccas, the anti-meridian was to be 297.5 leagues or 17° to the east of the Moluccas, passing through the islands of las Velas and Santo Thome. This distance is slightly smaller than the 300 leagues determined by Magellan as the westward distance from los Ladrones to the Philippine island of Samar, which is just west of due north of the Moluccas.

The Moluccas are a group of islands just west of New Guinea. The Moluccas were a small chain of islands, the only place on Earth where cloves grew.Cloves were so prized by Europeans for their medicinal uses that they were worth their weight in gold.

Despite the treaty's clear statement that the demarcation line passes 17° east of the Moluccas, some sources place the line just east of the Moluccas.

The Treaty of Saragossa did not modify or clarify the line of demarcation in the Treaty of Tordesillas, nor did it validate Spain's claim to equal hemispheres (180° each), so the two lines divided the Earth into unequal hemispheres. Portugal's portion was about 191°±4° whereas Spain's portion was about 169°±4°. Most of the uncertainty is due to the wide variation in the opinions regarding the location of the Tordesillas line.

Portugal gained control of all lands and seas west of the Saragossa line, including all of Asia and its neighboring islands so far "discovered," leaving Spain most of the Pacific Ocean. Although the Philippines were not named in the treaty, Spain implicitly relinquished any claim to them because they were well west of the line.

Nevertheless, by 1542, King Charles V decided to colonize the Philippines, judging that Portugal would not protest too vigorously because the archipelago had no spice, but he failed in his attempt. King Philip II succeeded in 1565, establishing the initial Spanish trading post at Manila.

Besides Brazil and the Moluccas, Portugal would eventually control Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe in Africa; Goa and Daman and Diu in India; and East Timor and Macau in the Far East.

England and France were not included in the treaty, partially because of their centralist expansionism with Wales and Brittany, dynastic problems with Stuarts and Bourbons, while continuing their Hundred Years' War contest over Burgundy. As a result, England and France no longer had access to Mediterranean navigators and resorted to privateering- a delicate term for outright Piracy and theft - with their own sailors such as Francis Drake and Jacques Cartier. The English and French approaches were more or less of the same caliber.

Hope it helps
Santiago

Answer 2

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Answer 3

According to the Treaty of Sargasso, the Spaniards could establish colonies in most of the Americas and they did. The only part of South America which jutted out eastward of the geographic line of separation was Brazil. So, it became a Portugese colony along with other areas in Western Africa, Goa on the Indian subcotinent, Macau in China and Timor in the South Pacific. BTW, that treaty was negotiated by the Pope to facilitate the propogation of the faith beyond its current borders.

Answer 4

well back in 14XX or so, a certain pope proclaimed that Spain would be able to colonize and control lands west of a line and Portugal could colonize and control to the east of this line...
Yet, Portugal was still able to colonize Brazil...
if you find out what this line was, you can see where almost all of Portugal's colonies were, and where Spain ended up
it's a Papal Bull...

Answer 5

Any time in history? What time frame?

Answer 6

Colonization where?

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=669
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/history/html/colonia/coloniza.html
http://www.navy.mil.ph/history3.html
http://www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/sf/sf.htm
http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/p/2916/mcms.html
http://www.philippinecountry.com/philippine_history/spanish_colonization.html
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=EJ617057

Portuguese?
http://www.answers.com/topic/portuguese-colonization-of-the-americas
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1461312
http://www.bartleby.com/67/918.html
http://historymedren.about.com/library/text/bltxtportugal23.htm
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-196270