Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7257730-20130401130901/@comment-32656-20130404111352

That Treaty is irrelevant - no power ever paid it more than lip service. Most ignored it entirely.

For that matter, Spain, Portugal, and Constantinople are irrelevant as well. Europe is far larger than that.

That was not the "main reason" at all.

"Around Africa" means the Americas get discovered.