Treaty of Tordesillas and Canaries
I'm gussing this is WaD, but it strikes me as an odd method of interpreting the ToT. The Canary Isles are Spanish sovereign territory, with Spain holding a core on them. However, come the ToT, Portugal gets a ToT shield on them -- a human Portugal can easily nick the Canaries from Spain, and it's conceivable that an AI Portugal could accidentally take them.
Here's a copy of the original text, which starts with the preamble:
I'm gussing this is WaD, but it strikes me as an odd method of interpreting the ToT. The Canary Isles are Spanish sovereign territory, with Spain holding a core on them. However, come the ToT, Portugal gets a ToT shield on them -- a human Portugal can easily nick the Canaries from Spain, and it's conceivable that an AI Portugal could accidentally take them.
Here's a copy of the original text, which starts with the preamble:
(my emphasis added). Spanish dominion of the Canaries was recognised implicitly by the ToT (and, one presumes, by all other similar documents).
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