Decouvertes Maritimes Possessions Coloniales des Espagnols et des Portugais

An interesting world map on Mercator's projection showing the colonial possessions and discoveries of Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their possessions are highlighted in yellow for Spain and in pink and red underlined for Portugal. The Treaty of Tordesillas signed at Tordesillas in Spain on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setœbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.