The document supported spain’s strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the lands discovered by columbus the previous.

Webthe papal bull inter caetera, issued by pope alexander vi on may 4, 1493, played a central role in the spanish conquest of the new world.

The new pope was alexander vi borgia, a spaniard.

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