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Some big claims (lemmy.world)

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Pope had kind of done that already a century back. Picked a line in Brazil and said Portugal gets everything East and Castile(Spain) gets everything West.

Spain won that gamble.

[–] smee@poeng.link 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IIRC Portugal wasn't aware of the vast landmasses to the west and felt they got the better deal, Spain only getting a sliver of land and some grey areas on the map.

But big papa should have gone "I think it all belongs to the church and if you disagree, you go to hell." Much like how the church got wealthy in the first place, "Put us in the will and your sins will be forgiven."

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I mean the church pretty told it was Portugal and Spain's job to loot their respective partitions of gold and silver for the church, so yeah.