Eduardo- Após a "descoberta" da América, por Cristóvão Colombo, After the "discovery" of America, by Christopher Columbus,
- instalou-se uma crise entre Portugal e Espanha, a crisis erupted between Portugal and Spain,
- que deu início a um longo processo de negociação which started a long negotiation process
- pelas terras recém-descobertas. for the newly discovered lands.
- O Tratado de Tordesilhas, The Treaty of Tordesillas,
- celebrado a 7 de junho de 1494, signed on June 7, 1494,
- veio pôr um fim a essa disputa, brought the dispute to an end,
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Vocabulary
apósafter, upon celebradocelebrated, concluded, signed a crisecrisis a descobertadiscovery divididodivided sing.,masc. EspanhaSpain o fimthe end instalarto install, set up, deploy Lesteeast a linhaline oestewest pertencerto belong PortugalPortugal o reinokingdom a terrasoil, earth, land o tratadotreaty
Expressions
dar início ato kick off, begin, commence something
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Comments
This is great! I like the fact that I can learn some history at my early stage of learning.
Thanks… can we have a dialogue set in a classroom (or maybe the Vatican, LOL) about the hubris of carving up the world like this? Pope Francis is doing his bit — maybe Practice Portuguese can too.
Hi Shelley, that’s a great suggestion 🙂 We’ll add it to our list of ideas for future content!