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Virginia's land claims by year (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me about the Treaty of Zaragoza between Castile (Spain) and Portugal, where they divided the world in two half between each other. Just claim big.

Context: The "new world" was just discovered 35 yeas earlier and the world map was still very crude in the east indias and the new amazonas region - worldmaps 1530

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

The Portuguese perfected early cannons and had pretty good ships. You can win lots of coastline if you can just aim 20 guns at a city in the 1500s. That's like having jet aircraft in the 1800s.