The Age of Exploration: Chapter 3, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution ====================================================================== WHAT IT DIVIDED Newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands: east to Portugal, west to Castile. WHY THE UNCERTAINTY The treaty gave distance in undefined leagues from unspecified Cape Verde islands, without degrees, and 16th century experts proposed locations from about 42 to 49 degrees west. CAUTION The source does not mention the peoples who already lived in those lands.