<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Treaty of Tordesillas </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Front page of the Portuguese - owned treaty </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Created </Th> <Td> 7 June 1494 in Tordesillas, Spain </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ratified </Th> <Td> 2 July 1494 in Spain 5 September 1494 in Portugal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Archivo General de Indias (Spain) Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Portugal) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Author (s) </Th> <Td> Pope Alexander VI (later confirmed and ratified by Pope Julius II in 1506) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signatories </Th> <Td> Ferdinand II of Aragon Isabella I of Castile John, Prince of Asturias John II of Portugal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Purpose </Th> <Td> To divide trading and colonising rights for all newly discovered lands of the world located between Portugal and Castile (later applied between the Spanish Crown and Portugal) to the exclusion of other European nations . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Treaty of Tordesillas </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Front page of the Portuguese - owned treaty </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Created </Th> <Td> 7 June 1494 in Tordesillas, Spain </Td> </Tr>

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