Mark the statement if it accurately describes Portugal’s claim to Brazil. A. The explorer who claimed Brazil was following a plan to sail far to the west to find and claim land for Portugal. B. The explorer who claimed Brazil was able to do so because Brazil lay east of the Line of Demarcation drawn at the Treaty of Tordesilla. C. A map of South America that shows the 1494 Line of Demarcation explains why the people of Brazil speak a different language from most of the people living in the rest of South America.

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A. The explorer who claimed Brazil was following a plan to sail far to the west to find and claim land for Portugal.

This statement accurately describes Portugal's claim to Brazil. The explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500, was on a mission to sail westward to find a route to Asia. However, he unexpectedly reached the coast of what is now Brazil, and thus, Portugal claimed the newly discovered land.






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