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The Tordesillas Treaty. The treaty was signed as an agreement between the Spanish and the Portuguese monarchs. The Treaty was signed to avoid the unwanted confusion between Spain and the Portugal on the claim of the land in the New World. In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain.He narrated the stories about his voyage to Pope Alexander VI, a Spanish by birth.Understanding the need to divide the New World lands between Spain and Portugal he issued a  Papal Decree  (Papal Bull).he Treaty of Tordesillas was signed as a mutual agreement between Spain and Portugal to propagate their quest for explorations in the New World and also to enhance their trade activities.
After previous treaties over land rights were broken and war between Spain and Portugal was imminent, Pope Alexander VI offered a solution in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. In the treaty, the previously established Inter Caetera line would be moved 270 degrees west to divide the lands of the non-Christian world between Spain to the west and Portugal to the east.