A Pen Stroke Split the World and Made Brazil
Age of Exploration

A Pen Stroke Split the World and Made Brazil

A Spanish bishop who never left Europe carved up the entire planet with a pen stroke—and in the process created Brazil.

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Age of ExplorationSpainPortugalColonialismDiplomacyTreaty of TordesillasPope Alexander VIJuan de Fonseca16th CenturyImperialism

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