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How did the line of demarcation affect settlement of South America

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Most of Asia was not so easily colonized, and the lasting effect of the Line of Demarcation was to establish Brazil and Formosa as Portuguese colonies for a few centuries, and a swath of the Americas from Texas, California and the Caribbean to Patagonia--as well as the Philippines--as Spanish colonies.

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