The Treaty of Tordesillas (Tratado de Tordesillas) signed at Tordesillas Spain on June
7, 1494, divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the
Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, That line of demarcation was about
halfway between the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese) and the islands
entered by Columbus on his first voyage The lands to the east would belong to
Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile.
A. True
B. False