In a treaty of 1494, the monarchs of the _____ peoples asserted that the globe should be divided between them by an imaginary north-and-south line that ran from a point in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean through the North Pole and across eastern Asia.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 was between the Spanish and Portuguese monarchs. They agreed to divide the newly discovered lands outside Europe between them along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa).

In a Treaty of 1494, the Monarchs of the _____