The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 settled:?

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A.) Columbus's dispute over the governorship of Hispaniola
B.) a dispute over using Africans as slaves
C.) the dispute between Spain and Portugal over claims to new lands
D.) a dispue over Europeans capturing Native Americans as slaves
 
C. The Pope drew a line in the Atlantic, any newly found lands west of the line would be Spanish anything east would be Portugese.

Unfortunately for the Portugese the only land east of the land was part of Brazil, and that is why they speak Portugese there today and not Spanish.
 
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