Tobacco Asia

Tobacco Asia 19 SPONSORED CONTENT Figure 2: The western extension of the dividing line of the Treaty of Alcáçovas ends in the lower central part of the Florida Peninsula in the United States today. In 1478, under the mediation of the Pope, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas to ease tensions in the Atlantic Ocean. Approved by the Pope in 1481, the treaty stipulated that the entire world would be divided by the line in the Canary Islands, with the north to be explored by Spain and the south by Portugal, i.e., the nautical discovery and trade rights in the south of 28° N belonged to Portugal [2] while that in the north to Spain. Spain was more willing to devote resources for westward expansion along the 28th parallel north rather than exploring northward in the high-dimensional areas with extreme cold and high risks. This treaty provided sufficient impetus for Spain to first discover that Native Americans in Central America and Cuba as cigar smokers. (2) Impact of the Treaty of Tordesillas and the Treaty of Zaragoza (Saragossa) on the dis- semination pathway of the American cigars After Spain's Discovery of the New World in 1492 and circumnavigation in 1521, Portugal reckoned that its rights of treaty in 1478 had been violated. Under the coordina- tion of the Pope in the Vatican, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas [3] in 1494, and the Treaty of Zaragoza (Saragossa) [4] in 1529. These treaties stipulated that the nautical discovery and trade rights in the east of 46° W (red line on the left side in Figure 3), and that in the west of 144° E (red line on the right side in Figure 3) belonged to Portugal.

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