Portugal claimed what is now the largest nation in South America, Brazil. That meant Spain claimed land stretching from what we know today as the state of California, through Mexico, the countries of Central America and the Caribbean Sea, and nearly all of South America. Any lands east of the line belonged to Portugal. Any lands west of that line, they decided, belonged to Spain. In the Treaty of Tordesillas, they drew a line in the Atlantic Ocean. Spain and Portugal were the some of the most powerful empires at the time. This treaty divided the “New World” of the Americas.
On June 7, 1494, the governments of Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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