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And columbus is instructed to write letters to the pope, sort of chatty little travel logs about all the things he s seeing, who the natives are, what they look like, how fascinating they are. he s filling in the pope in order to soften up the pope towards the spanish perspective because the portuguese and spanish are spatting about who is going to own one. this got very ugly and tense and seemed likely to result in more. they turned the papacy to alexander vi to adjudicate the international boundary. it s the pope who literally draws the line on the map of the ocean. everything east of that line belonged to portugal and that s how brazil came to be a portuguese colony. narrator: on may 12, 1493, ....

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