Americas by the 1500s
… by the Portuguese Pedro Cabral, who landed in Brazil in 1500 and by Giovanni da Verrazano, who explored the east … Spain. Portugal colonised Brazil, which they discovered in 1500 and lies east of the line of Tordisillas. In the early … in the Americas was not as extensive as Spain's. In 1500 Pedro Cabral landed in Brazil. Temporary trading posts …