Christopher Columbus (1960) | Mell-O-Toons Animation
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- Mel-O-Toons (sometimes erroneously spelled Mello Toons) were a series of animated cartoons , using limited animation, and were produced starting in 1959 by New World Productions (not to be confused with the production company founded by Roger Corman) and syndicated by United Artists.[1] The stories featured various folk tales, Greco-Roman myths, Biblical stories, classic literary adaptations, and adaptations of classical music and ballet. The soundtracks were often taken from existing children's records, licensed from the original labels, including RCA Records and Capitol Records. 104 cartoons were produced, each had a run time of 6 minutes.
After many years out of circulation, public domain prints have turned up on videotape and DVD. - wikipedia
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People knew that the Earth was round at this time, by the way. He had concluded that it was smaller than believed - and was wrong.
He actually thought it was shaped like a pear
ruclips.net/video/vEYgJKW4lKg/видео.html
@@kiktik2413dumbass thought he went to India and Japan fr
thankyou reelblack for giving us this very old cartoon, which does date back now.
Most people here seem to just talk about Columbus's atrocities, but I just find the little tune about the Earth's shape catchy.
You're not the only one. Old timey cartoons made catchy ass tunes
I'm equally amused both by the song and upset for us as humans that history all too often gets written by the victors.
It is a guilty pleasure of mine
What atrocities? Medicine and trade? Or have you been reading nothing but Ottoman and English empire propaganda against the Spanish Empire only?
Horst Wessel Lied is admittedly catchy but should you even be listening to that song?
Its been years since i watched this brings back memories thnaks for posting this bro
WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS STUFF?? VINTAGE!
i got this same cartoon on dvd
from like 2003 @ walmart or dolla store. its 1 dvd with like 15 episodes of different old shows
CLE -CHI we need more nostalgic
They make King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella look too old in this cartoon. Isabella was born in 1451, and Ferdinand was born in 1452, so both were in their early forties when they sponsored Columbus.
I’m a child and I used to watch these old cartoons growing up 😮
It's really nice isn't it. It doesn't teach white children to hate themselves like the radicals in the comment section want.
IKR 😉😮
Tbh, besides the one major error that he discovered the world was round (he incorrectly believed it was pear shaped), as it had been known to be round since Aristotle, everything else it said was pretty truthful, they pointed out that he was looking for India and thought he’d found it (he still believed he’d made it to India when he died years after his voyages) and that the American natives are known as Indians due to his mistake, obviously they left out the whole bloody genocide part, but you could argue that was more to do with Columbus’s brother than with him, although Columbus himself did also commit crimes against the natives (for which he was imprisoned)
I show these to my young nieces and nephews. Nothing like old wholesome educational cartoons. Thanks for posting. I love this channel.
"Educational cartoons" lol
@@dancooper6002 I don't disagree that a lot of modern cartoons are crap. But there is nothing to be learned here. Putting aside the elephant in the room (What happened to the native americans) people already knew the world was round during Columbus' time. He did not discover the world was round.
@@kaiser8659 he wasnt trying to prove the earth was round, nobody in europe knew America even existed
I really hope you’re trolling.
@@Cybermat47 I don't hate white people like you people do. I'm well aware of the intentions behind this channel, but I'm glad they don't alter the content because it's quality stuff and I watch it to learn rather than hate.
This was the beginning of the end for 90+ million indigenous people.
Yes. It sure was.
That was just the middle passage.
1000000 millions...
source?
the population of 1492 was 112 million
From Columbus’ diary: “They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
And that's just what they did...we are still here in chains only they change our name every decade or so. Right now they're calling us "Black."
Tiffany Robinson Word.
@@nicknoodleman3169 Boy, bye.
@@nicknoodleman3169 You’re whiteness plagues you. I don’t need to finish the quote because there are so many from his diaries, the diaries of the clergy traveling with him and the soldiers, as well. It would take a scared little white man to spend his time debating historical fact and then take offense at a well known, age old, line like “Boy, bye”. Go outside and be blinded by ultraviolet rays. Key word: Go.
@@nicknoodleman3169 You are so sad... Please read “The People’s History of the United States of America” there’s more of his quotes translated by Italians, Americans, and where is this proofs of British malfeasance that leads you to defend the indefensible.
Oh yeah, and he also killed a bunch of... everyone on those islands. Small children, newborns, elderly peoples, and pregnant women.
And the women of an acceptable age were sold into sexual slavery. The able-bodied men were worked to death in the mines. The Spanish crown was angry not so much at the atrocities, but the idiocy of killing off the workforce. That's why they ended up having to ship enslaved Africans to the Caribbean to compensate for Columbus' incompetence.
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Don’t you have Columbus mixed up with Cortez?
Until they began importing African natives.
I mean even if the first song is really wrong in so many ways, I can't deny that it is catchy.
You'll find this one very catchy as well
m.ruclips.net/video/heQ8Pe4daow/видео.html
"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...." just like politics, this portion of history is under-summarized and over-simplified to fit an agenda, describing how this land was "discovered" based on an adventurer's curiosity. As I understand it, it's more than curiousity that drove the Spaniards west. I recommend reading "They came before Columbus" to get, at least, a proper background leading up to Columbus's travels. Should be required reading in public schools imo.
Salaama
The author's name of THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS is ivan van sertima.
I think it's important to state the author's name with the work.
And folks should check out THE ISIS PAPERS by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Not talking about columbus, but breaking down the origin signifance and symbolism of this white supremacy system matrix we live in.
Miss Shannon thanks for clarifying and yes, important to state and credit the author. Just now halfway through the book but mostly appreciate the volume of references that substantiate the work.
I’ve recently stumbled over Dr. Frances Cress Welsing in a H2N broadcast and was impressed by her historical analysis related to African Americans. She, along with Tony Brown and others, dismantled the notion pushed by Dr Shockley that black genetics were inferior when compared to those with less melanin. (Term he used was “dysgenics”). She is certainly a warrior for truth.
@@toddwilson8059 ❤👊
Christopher Columbus for far too long was regarded as the hero who brought Christianity to America.
It was only in the last 20 years that the truth about him came into the public consciousness, and about the same time schools had only started to teach the truth about his blood soaked rampage and touching off a genocide that nearly wiped out the people of an entire hemisphere, a body count neither Hitler, Stalin, or Mao could 'achieve'. And those genocides seemed sterile in comparason to what Columbus and his men did to the people who were already here. Ripping babies out of their mothers' arms and smashing them against rocks while roaring with laughter. Or holding contests to see who can slice an indigenous person in two with one stroke of the sword. Or cutting off the ears of indigenous people who refused to convert to Christianity. Or how about packing as many indigenous people as they could into stone houses like sardines, locking them inside, and setting the structure on fire? Just a few of the many barbarities and monsterous acts committed under Columbus's conquest of the Americas. His actions were so horrific, that the Spanish Crown issued a warrant for his arrest and he was brought back to Europe in chains. This was quite a feat, considering just how violent and crime ridden Europe was at the time, and that the indigenous people were thought to be subhuman by the Crown.
Unfortunately, Christopher Columbus's legacy lives on by countless examples that continue through to this very day.
Don't forget Columbus justified all of his actions with the Bible.
@@plateshutoverlock delusional
So glad I've lived LONG enough to see "AMERICA'S LIES" unraveled & uncovered.
It's not only America that's lied, they have partners in their crimes against hue-manity
what exactly is the lie?
Yeah, Christopher Columbus was an A- hole.
Digital Lobster they didn’t show how Columbus killed, enslaved,rap, the natives.
Wasn't even his name 🙄 Look into him he was actually deceptive to many to finally get to the Queen. The Queen didn't commission him he went to her and begged till she gave in.
So every October 12th we should all just go discovery other people's property. Ijs🤷🏿
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Right
SQUATTERS DAY!!
Ummm. That man knew where he was going.
@Repair right roofing dat boah wuz reycis mane
@@ChrissyTheBlacc A wise man once said "What?"
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Thas sum disscrim-in-atorium an sheet.
Wow, that was cleaned up nice.
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As much as I really hate to admit it, the music slaps and it was actually kind of fun to watch if you turn off your brain and don't think about the countless inaccuracies or the Native American stereotypes.
@bunnybird9342 Or the horrible atrocities Columbus committed.
@@johnpolitis7929 that still falls under the inaccuracies category though, since this cartoon doesn't talk about them at all.
@@bunnybird9342 Agreed! Here is another negative song about Columbus(he's a bad guy):
ruclips.net/video/sbMoiRRcPE4/видео.html
Christopher Colubmus is this(the real horrible Columbus):
ruclips.net/video/4QSe9Q5IALs/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/1_Ohk6QAT9E/видео.html
This movie and the other short subject Mel-O-Toons pictures need to return to theatre screens in order to force theatre managers from their selling of advertising to local businesses.
Happy Columbus Day!
What’s up with the plantation humming in the beginning?
It's actually the classic Neapolitan song, "Torna a Surriento" (Return to Sorrento). They reprise it to mind-boggling effect in the "Turn back, Columbus" bit, sung by moustachioed ?Neapolitans ?Spaniards ?Turks ruclips.net/video/MsVk9sGiDcc/видео.html
i don't celebrate thanksgiving anymore after learning the truth.
49jubilee so what if native Americans celebrate it? They confused too!
Do some research on ALL of these Federal holidays....paganism.
@@warrengee4006 those who celebrate Thanksgiving and Columbus day are the $5. Indians
@49jubilee only the $5. Dollar indians celebrate Thanksgiving and Columbus day, imbecile
@@mrs.reeves1006 🗣 EXACTLY
Except in reality, everybody knew the Earth is round. What actually happened is that Columbus fucked up his calculations of the radius of Earth and concluded that it was possible to sail to India. Because he was wrong, he didn't make it, but was very lucky to find a new continent instead of an empty ocean he would starve on.
Wow! Actually admitted that Natives had brown skin! Wow!
Since when did anyone not 'admit' that?
Sigh, people knew the Earth was round by 1492.
wow good animation
this looks like something out of clone high
Topher Bus moment
This sound like Jamaica story that’s what he exactly do ..with the tanios
It was common in the ancient times to conquer and possess, this is nothing new.
but not to kill everyone.
@@veronicahaney6005 Non-Europeans have always been the majority population of the world. Whites are the minority. Look up the brutality and evil of the ottoman empire which employed institutional castration, sex slavery ,and rape upon europeans that they conquered. Look up how africans treated each other in the centuries preceding slavery. Many African societies replaced the death penalty with forced slavery when the trade came around. The world is cruel and people who aren't white have every possibility to try their hand at being the cruelest, and history shows they often do.
@@veronicahaney6005 Killing others,taking women, and conquering was literally happening more back then lol. That's just how mother nature works
Keep it up
Im sure all the people hating on Columbus were there in 1492 lmao?
Everybody big mad Columbus whizzed in their wheaties
Actually, yes. How else do you think Sir Francisco Fernández de Bobadilla was able to arrest Columbus?
Amazing how long people believed the many non-facts n this cartoon. Like a round earth being just Columbus’ idea at the time.
Now imagine if he found india....
*United States of India*
Omggggg this is how I learned about him when I was young
4:25 San Salvador = Guanahaní / Watling's Island that belongs to The Bahamas, ≠ Puerto Rico
I apologize for my 2nd rant and rave, but the people of the land columbus discovered is what's known as the Caribbean. The natives who inhabited those lands called themselves The Tianos.Translation, (Espaniol) has referred to them as La Tianos, or The Tianos) later mixed into the language as Latino, insinuating people of Latin descent. Arawak (Local), the, word "Latino" in historical reference actually means "The Tiano's" (native caribbeans) in the old Spanish dialect. Just another History Lesson. But the language of Espanol did in most parts originate from the Latin dialect, but Latin is not the same meaning as (Latino). The Latino people of the Caribbean Islands, is what Latino means. And you should be damn proud of you heritage. Natives Tiano, Spanish, and African, have made up the modern racial mix of modern Caribbeans. Even in my drunkest late night state, I can remember all of this. But it's ingrained in my memory. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I am a World History teacher, on furlow, who loves our world's history, and this is what I do. Research, write and teach. Don't listen to any more of this RUclips half a century ago bull-shit. I strive to teach the true without any racial, religious, political, or class bias. The whole truth and nothing but the truth, our history exposed. I thank you for your patience.
Thank you. My great grandmother is Arawak, and I don’t like when people get the story wrong and spread misinformation! This was very much needed and thank you for posting.
Even tho I was born in 1978 I do remember watching this! That when we had the brown cable boxes with the long cord attached. Wow a bunch of lies!
Here is another song about Columbus:
ruclips.net/video/sbMoiRRcPE4/видео.html
this aged about as bad if not worse than that ad removing the wtc
Well I guess he had to leave out some of this because this was probably for kids but he was correct about him not landing in America landing in South America
I'll give them that. Plus putting lateen rigging on the Nina and Santa Maria (only the Pinta was square-rigged). Plus the origins of "Los Indios", or "Indian" as the long-standing term for somebody of native/indigenous descent in the Americas. Although he was sailing to the Indies, not India. Meaning the Spice Islands of Indonesia. The native Dayak and Batak people were known to traders through stories, so the appearance of the Taino and Carib tribes seemed similar enough to what he had heard about.
The version I prefer
aaaaa the narrator didn't mention that he killed millions and why he only had two voyoges.
He had four voyages and was brought back in chains after killing off the potential workforce.
i think the world isn't flat at all, i think it's round like a ball
Thats all bull that's not what happened SMH... Why y'all gotta hide the truth.🤔🙄
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I stumbled across this video, and I had to click it to see the LIESSSSSSSSS.
People knew the earth was round since ancient times...
So....this is the man who discovered America...
No
Nope, America was discovered by paleo-American hunted-gatherers around 16,500 BCE.
I like this
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Wrong, America was discovered around 16,500 BCE by Paleo-American hunter-gatherers whose descendants became the indigenous populations of the Americas.
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What he did was significant. ***So, it should be remembered.*** Was he perfect? No. Should we rewrite history into a lie? No. One man cannot be blamed for the natives' lack of immunity to old word germs. That would be a lie. Sheesh folks, he never even made it to the mainland, so how could he have killed millions of people?
Thanks reelblack for this look into the past.
Speak the truth, in love. Remember history, the good, the bad, and learn the beliefs and motives of people. Try to step into their shoes for understanding.
Wow. He had three ships and several hundred crew...
he went back and got 17 ships and 1,200 men and then took 500 natives as slaves and 300 died and then the others in the ship settled there and made towns which then started to pillage and raid the native towns resulting in a big war and the deaths of millions of native Americans as the population was 10 million at the time and went extinct after 100 years, Fuck your love and peace bullshit I'm not celebrating a mass murderer, what he did was significantly bad fuck you
@@kiktik2413 Slavery was practiced first by non-Europeans. Today, no Europeans practice slavery, yet many non-Europeans such as the Chinese, Turks, and Israelis still do.
@@kiktik2413 You do realize that the Native Americans mostly died because of the horrible diseases from the Europeans brought with them right. The Native Tribes in Latin America were already in the downfall thousands of years before Columbus. There's literally millions upon millions of Native Americans still alive in central and south America.
@@meatballmeatwad5730I do realize they died of diseases, but they also took the Indians as slaves and killed them too, you might say it was only Columbus's soldiers but that's not true because there are writings that say he did horrible things like throw babies on the ground. Right now there is only about 2 and a fourth million indians living in the US, (googled) which is way down from the approx 112 million that lived in the US before anyone except northern vikings had entered america.
um.. why are they singing.. lol
when Christopher Columbus first landed in the americas he had the time of his life and by time of his life I mean he went on a huge theft and murder spree
@micheabaker1873 And not only was Columbus a genocidal maniac who whacked 500,000 Tainos and 20 million more Native Indians doing a whack job on them making him a whacko, he also was a brutal crime boss who was a member of the Columbo crime family.
He acted and talked tough just like a Mafia crime boss and a mobster does and used intimidation tactics like having people beat up and killed who didn't pay up or obey him. He also took out a contract killing on his enemies.
The Columbo crime family is one of the top 5 Italian crime families. They are Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.
Columbus was the Al Capone of the 15th and 16th centuries. Columbus is a mobster who should be ranked up there up Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Bugsy Malone.
You have obviously gotten Columbus mixed up with Cortez.
The BIGGEST lie ever told in America.
Ikr he was a monster he killed the natives.
True, his men raped, murdered, and enslaved Indigenous women.
Morning Sky1 sad we have a holiday about him
@@eeeeee7389 we changed ours to Indigenous peoples day.
Morning Sky1 oh cool
A DAMN LIE
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Columbus' bad sense of direction was the beginning of a living hell for Native Americans. Shameful federal holiday.
He was a topnotch navigator lmao
Chick Hicks no he thought the world was small and he could have reached India. If America didn’t exist he would have died
Emil Smith
#1 No one knew a continent was there
#2 that has nothing to do with the art of navigation
#3 Columbus was a master at dead reckoning (an art of navigation) he was able to find his way back to Hispaniola multiple times with precision accuracy even in a terrible storm. He didn’t even use any navigational tool
#4 as a simple google search will tell you Yes. He was an exceptional navigator.
Columbus had a talent for dead-reckoning navigation the likes of which had been seen in few others. He had the ability to visit a place once and return to it again with almost no margin of error. On the return of the first voyage, he and the other navigators at one point all attempted to guess where they were. The others thought they were near Spain, Columbus said they were rather west of the Azores. All of them were off in their exact position, but five days later they sighted the Azores. Columbus was most correct.
He has been criticized for being a poor celestial navigator. True he was not nearly as good as some others, but celestial navigation was rather a new thing in his day. Also, the mistakes he made have also been made by better more modern navigators. When Columbus was near Cuba, he attempted to determine the latitude by celestial means and believed he was near 43° N, modern day New York. The mistake occurred because he used the wrong star, beta cephei (Alfirk) rather than Polaris. Samuel Eliot Morrison, author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and an experienced sailor and navigator on his own right, admits he made this same mistake in the same place in 1939.
#5 Don’t talk about things you know nothing about ( it makes you look like an idiot) 🤦♂️
@@chickhicks8474 you mean the Moor's were!
Columbus was the last to get to America. The west Africans, Egyptians, scandanavia and Chinese been made it here.
And the Americans.
@@Cybermat47 i dont understand, please clarify
@@laughsinmisogyny8827 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
im cringing really hard now
Ikr this is fake
I would too if I was a adult saying a 61 year old outdated cartoon for children. If you want to blame someone for this depiction, blame Washington Irving for writing the first English translation biography of Christopher Columbus.
If Columbus was as bad as you raclsts say he was, then why are you still alive.
world history ms. Krieble
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Do they not realise that the ancient Greeks already discovered that the earth was round🤦♀️
I love this video, they used to show it in music class and I haven’t been able to find it for years. Happy Columbus Day!
Columbus is my hero. He’s taught me three things I live my life by:
1. Science should be ignored.
2. America doesn’t exist, it’s just eastern India.
3. Human beings are commodities to be exploited.
Just a fact on October 12,1492 Columbus landed on one of the islands in the Bahamas it was already inhabited by the Arawak/ Lucayan Indians which they already named the island Guanahaní but you know he just had to name it San Salvador and to this day that island in the Bahamas is still named that but he barely did anything except stole, rape, killed and took the useful lucayans to Europe rip to my ancestors ❤️.
That mean was horrible
This is Haiti and Jamaica Cuba the greater Antilles
millennial natives punching the air rn
I mean I know that this is completely inaccurate and he was a genocidal maniac but I mean at least he got some sick beats.
this cartoon had more lies than real history
See this is were the bs start how you claim a land people were here already own
Historically inaccurate.... probably most likely. Didn't he just want spices?
This video is a lie
ruclips.net/video/vEYgJKW4lKg/видео.html
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That nigga Columbus legit opened the new world for his people, became a hero in his country, saved the souls of the Indian, and is forever remembered on his own day because of a wrong turn; truly blessed!
There are no black people in this production?!
Great explorer.
Nice narrated cartoon about Columbus for young children to learn about Christopher Columbus!😊
He was a liar and kill a lot of native Americans to steal everything in the American continent!
Unfortunately, they left out the syphilis part. Columbus was a thief and a murderer!
@@calilove2226 He gave them smallpox, they made sure he got syphilis.
Nices lie
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I LOVE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 😄😄
Now that’s the spirit.
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And the skin of was and is not white it's red blood shows forth the skln
A map maker who had no clue where he was going. Such terrible lie-telling.
Thank you Cristobal Colon and all the other colonizers for that horrific and deadly disease known as smallpox.....
Gracias a Cristóbal Colón avanzamos cómo sociedad.
Antes los indios sacrificaban inocentes niños por seguir estupidas creencias.
My ancestors were from North American, Yucatán, Centro America, South America, Africa and Europe. I am so proud to be a Latina.
In one of the documentaries on the History Channel, the Egyptians of ancient times invented the bacteria for Smallpox to begin the same as modern Chinese scientists have invented Covid.
Same pattern. Arrived to new places and became friends with natives, then stabbed the natives in the back to stole their wealth and land. They should teach that shit too
Look up which tribe owned and funded the slave ships. It wasn't whites.
Really? Greeks Already Knew The World Is round For Years
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Bunch of lies columbus
I do not celebrate Columbus day.
Are you cool with what states where all the reservations are located doing Indigenous People's Day instead? Like Oklahoma and Washington State?
I will never be ashamed of my ancestors
Same here.
Found the mexican
The Earth is Flat!
Haha no.
They showed us this crap when I was in elementary school back in the 70s.
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OK this is another level of historical inaccuracy taking a short to the fairy tale domain...
Columbus hero of America!!!
Long live spanish empire!!!!
Colón traicionó la confianza de los reyes de España y desobedeciendo sus órdenes en repetidas ocasiones
So cute to be talking about a killer😝😡😠😠
Columbus was no killer; so quit trying to compare him to Cortez.
I'm watching this and saying....... are they talking about MY country? Can't be. They were Arawaks. What in the world. They didn't even have the decency to at least call it the Bahama Islands. That's just wrong man. Smt
I noticed that, too. They showed Puerto Rico which he also renamed San Salvador. He didn't get there until his second voyage when he was trying to hunt for survivors from the massacre of the post he built just before he returned to Spain.
Kings of Spain?
Most of today’s spanish territory was part of a Muslim caliphate
The were the kings of castille
You had Christian Castille and Leon, which at that time were busy fighting to conquer the territory of said caliphate. The very last day of this period (known as the Reconquista) was an exact year and a day before the very day he left. The united kingdoms which became Spain were united with Portugal at the time as the Iberian Union. They had petty land squabbles often, most notably the one over South America that would lead to the pope making them sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which gave Portugal Brazil, and Spain almost everything else. The loophole came in the form of trying to take Japan, which ended badly and resulted in the brutal persecution of Christianity no thanks to their greed angering those who would become the first shoguns of the Tokugawa Dynasty. Otherwise, they were partners and allies on most everything, particularly the Spanish Inquisition (that was doing it to appease the pope). Google it.
Very false