Age Of Exploration Analysis

To what extent did the Age of Exploration 15th to 16th lead to conflict and competition between Port and Spain?

Introduction

The Age of Exploration was during the Renaissances period in Europe, it was a time that dealt with the whole of Europe coming out of the dark ages which was during 14th century to the 16th century when the Renaissance ended, of course this was due to the industrial revolution but that is not important…

The age of Exploration was a time when many countries in Europe sought a means of power by traveling to the new worlds in aid of helping their own countries by retrieving raw materials, slave labour, rare foods and spices, but also land that they could claim for their own countries. The most famous out of these

Spain declared that they controlled the Atlantic region around the Canary Islands,

Portugal would have the Atlantic region south of the Canary Islands and West of Africa.

In 1481 the Pope issued the rights of the Aeterni Regis agreements, however Portugal argued that the islands discovered by Columbus were originally claimed by the Portuguese sailors long before the Spanish.

Because of the two powers being strong in the Catholic belief and faith it came to the attention of Pope Alexander IV, this created the treaty of Tordelias, It was believed that Spain received the better half of the arrangement, this was due to the new continent being discovered.

The line was never clearly marked out so therefore it could not change.

A century passes and the Spanish seem to have gained the most of the treaty, by land, slave labour and raw

A large amount of time was focused on traveling and researching of the new world and land discovered in not only in North and South America but also the Coast of Africa for centuries people believed that Africa was a content that could not be tamed because of its terrible storms along the West Coast of Africa, but also the fact that both countries explorers took the time to document such important findings of the new world and land marks, but also the fact that measurements all of their recordings were near spot on is a means to show that both empires knew more or less about what they were getting themselves into…

However this does not help in aiding my question, but during time of research that I have compiled there is no physical evidence supporting the act of conflict unless you count the Treaty of Tordesillas, however I will admit that it was a very tense time between the Portuguese and Spanish empires. The Treaty of Tordesillas however is the only recorded time when both empires were close to starting a war, however I don’t see this as an act of conflict but rather a dispute because there actual