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The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale

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Unable to determine where the Tordesillas antimeridian actually fell, Castile and Portugal ended the dispute over the Spice Islands commercially rather than geographically: Charles V relinquished the Castilian claim in exchange for a large payment in gold, and a line was fixed east of the Moluccas. It is the clearest single demonstration of the period's central technical limit — a boundary that cannot be measured is settled by whoever needs the money less. Castile retained a presence in the western Pacific that later became the Philippines, on ground that arguably lay on the Portuguese side of the new line.

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