1493, When the world in the two was subdivided

Inspired mathematicians have covered the earth
                       [with countless hypothetical parallels and meridians.
Because of them we are all, either Indo-Europeans, or Chinese,
                                                                    [or Filipinos, or Indians,
do to them for our entire life we are accompanied
                                                                             [by two such lines,
(Latitude-Longitude) to the great joy of the "Big Brother",
                             [who, on the basis of these lines, makes destines ....

The lands to the East would belong to Portugal,
 [and the lands to the West to Castile, in the year 1493 the Pope decided,
Pope Alexander VI* * who issued the edict (Papal Bull)"Inter caetera"              *Rodrigo Borgia
                            [and so, in a way, the world in the two was subdivided.

People at that time did not know the meridians (longitude)
                                                                      [to determine the border line .....
so the Pope's edict defined the boundary
                        [a vertical line 100 leagues west Azores, such kind of line.

Humanity at that time had not yet realized what the ancient Greeks,
                                              [Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and Ptolemy, did !!

Following the Pope's mandate, Lisbon was displeased,
              [but the people were very happy on the Main Square* in Madrid.            *Plaza Mayor 
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to be continued

* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS
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*A meridian (a line of longitude) a great circle. The notion of longitude was developed by the Greek Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC – c. 195 BC) in Alexandria, and Hipparchus (c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC) in Rhodes, and applied to a large number of cities by the geographer Strabo (64/63 BC – c. 24 AD). But it was Ptolemy (c. AD 90 – c. AD 168) who first used a consistent meridian for a world map in his

Geographia. 

Ptolemy's 1st projection, redrawn under Maximus Planudes around 1300, using 

a prime meridian east of Africa

Purple line dividing the non-Christian world between Castileand Portugal: (the 1494 Tordesillas meridian (purple)

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