The major powers divide their global influence, conquer lesser nations, and pocket the profits.
I am speaking, of course, of the treaty ofTordesillas, in 1494, when power over the known world was divided between Spain and Portugal (by the agreement of Spain and Portugal) education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/treaty-tordesillas/
"The story goes back to the earlier advances of Portuguese and Spanish explorers into the eastern Atlantic in the 15th century. Already at the time, first the Portuguese and then the Castilian crowns successfully lobbied the papacy for recognition of an exclusive right to navigate, trade, and vest their authorities over the coasts of Africa and the isles in the Atlantic. The first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) across the ocean in 1492 formed the occasion for the promulgation of a series of papal bulls by Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503). Through the bull Inter Caetera of 4 May 1493, the pope granted the two Iberian crowns an exclusive right to the outer-European world, dividing their respective spheres of influence by drawing a line 100 leagues (320 miles) west of the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands. Portugal could lay claim to any territories to the east of that line, while Spain was allotted the lands and seas to the west of it. The following year, the two parties amended the bull in the Treaty of Tordesillas (7 June 1494), by agreeing on a different line, running 370 leagues (1,185 miles) westwards from the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. This brought, inadvertently, the eastern shoulder of South America into the Portuguese sphere. After the first circumnavigation of the world, the two Iberian powers agreed on the dividing line in the Pacific between their spheres (Treaty of Saragossa, 22 April 1529)." opil.ouplaw.com/page/714
I wonder where the line has been drawn to divide the spheres of influence between Russia and the USA once Trump has annexed Venezuela, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, and all his further planned colonies?
