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The tordesillas treatry was signed before there were colonies.

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Q: The Treaty of Tordesillas limited Portugal to which colony?
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Why is brasil the only portoghese colony in South America?

Brasil was the only Portuguese colony because the Treaty of Tordesillas.


Why did Spain have spare some territory with Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas if the Spanish had already come to the Americas before the Portuguese had?

It was likely that the Portuguese colony of Brazil would eventually expand into Spanish claimed territory. Already by the time of the Treaty of Tordesillas' signing, there were skirmishes over the area that now forms the border between Argentina and Brazil. Furthermore, Spain wanted to avoid a conflict with Portugal in the Old World as concerns Portugal's numerous maritime colonies.


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The first Portuguese settlements in Brazil were east of the Tordesillas line.


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Was Brazil a former colony?

Spain----------------------------------------------Brazil declared its independence from Portugalon September 7, 1822. Portugal acknowledged Brazil's independence in the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, signed August 29, 1825.


Was Portugal a british colony until 1947?

Portugal was not a British colony.


Portugal was a colony of Brazil true or false?

Brazil was a colony of Portugal not the other way around.


Was Brazil a former colony of Portugal or Spain?

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Why was an imaginary line drawn running north and south through South America and what was this line called?

The imaginary line was the Line of Demarcation drawn according to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. It was designed to prevent Spain and Portugal from claiming the same regions and establishing competing colonies in the world, notably the New World. The line was a line of longitude around 42.5° W, about midway between the Portuguese colony in the Cape Verde Islands and the new Spanish possessions in Hispaniola and the Caribbean. The line effectively limited Portugal to a major colony in Brazil, the only modern South American country that extends east of the line.


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Macau was once a colony of what European country?

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Did Spain colonize Brazil?

Portugal was the colonial ruler of Brazil when Brazil was a colony of Portugal.