Following Columbus’s landmark voyage, Spain and Portugal found themselves in a race for global dominance. To prevent open conflict, Pope Alexander VI intervened—issuing a series of papal bulls that ...

The Tordesillas Treaty of June 7, 1494, between King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, on one side, and King John II of Portugal on the other, established a new line of ...

Three of the largest real estate deals in recorded history are the Alaskan Purchase, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Treaty of Tordesillas. Learn more about these land deals.

According to the Treaty of Tordesillas, ... Unfortunately, 500 years or so later the spirit of Tordesillas is alive and well in Hong Kong's own backyard, ...

Reporting from Tordesillas, Spain — With a salvo of rockets fired from a bridge over the River Duero, a metal gate swings wide, and a 1,200-pound bull bolts out through the smoke. He careens ...