Re-Discovery+of+North+America

=  Re-Discovery of North America   = After Colombus's exploration to the 'Indies' (which they later found out to be the Americas), other European explorers sailed west to find more land, and hopefully great wealth. These explorers thought that this was a genuine discovery, little did they know that explorers had gotten there centuries before them.

European Worries
In the 1490's Spain and Portugal had opened new lands to discovery, but they feared other countries might claim their new found territory. To resolve their fears they made a line of demarcation, an imaginary line which divided the world, and where each country could influence. This was called the **Treaty of Tordesillas** (named this because it was singned in the Spanish city of Tordesillas) signed in 1494, and in 1529 they signed the **Treaty of Zaragoza** which showed where Spanish exploration stopped to the east. This gave Spain control of unexplored territories to the west of the line (most of the Americas), and Portugal control of the east (the route around Africa). Later other countries relized that Columbus had discovered an entirely new frontier and wanted new territories for themselves. Explorers such as **John Cabot** and **Amerigo Vespucci** went on voyages to America and wrote letters of what they saw.

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** Influence on the World **
__Treaty of Tordesillas__ __Naive Explorers__
 * A large influence on the world's history. It led to colonisation, because it established that there was other countries in the world. The treaty also caused a lot of tension between England and the Pope, because the Pope was supporting the treaty and England wasn't involved in it. This was another motivating factor for the later Protestant Reformation.
 * The explorers that came to the America's with the idea they were entering India, gave native Americans the title of Indians.