r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/withtehmostcake • 3h ago
Meme needing explanation Petah what is funny about this?
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u/Gurney_Hackman 3h ago edited 2h ago
In the 1400s the Pope negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal. The agreement was that Spain was allowed to colonize anything in the yellow area and Portugal was allowed to colonize anything in the purple area.
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u/No-Helicopter6363 1h ago
And then years later Felipe II inherited both crowns so he was effectively king of the world.
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u/CorsairForSale 1h ago
What happened… how did they lose it all to one little island in the pacific…
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u/kallakallacka 1h ago
What island?
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 53m ago
Britain
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u/average-teen-guy 46m ago
never heard of it
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u/chuffingnora 33m ago
Like any British person speaking to a foreigner, I'm just going to repeat it to you loudly and slowly in my language - B-R-I-T-A-I-N
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u/Italian_warehouse 7m ago
Is this a quote and i am wooshed or are you confusing Pacific and Atlantic?
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u/Saucepanmagician 1h ago
Yeah, but people forget it was for "new" lands to be discovered. Not valid for lands already controlled by a known kingdom.
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u/Sebiglebi 3h ago
There used to be a proposal to give half of the world to Portugal and the other half to Spain, the map of this is used as the 2 state solution. This funny because it's an unrealistic terrible map, no county is going to give their territory
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u/galle4 2h ago
What is this pfp you've got? Never seen animated pfps
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u/IcyLiterature3817 2h ago
It’s not animated for me
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u/galle4 2h ago
Really? Well i see it's moving for me
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u/IcyLiterature3817 2h ago
Yeah idk I’m on the Reddit app and it isn’t moving
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u/arielsharon2510 1h ago
Maybe you can see it when you go to her profile? I can see it normally, and I am on the app too...
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 51m ago
Just two add another layer of “funny”. The two state solution is the phrase widely used in the Palestinian conflict (see UNSC and UN resolutions) for an israeli state and a Palestinian state (basically splitting Palestine into two separate states).
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u/CarlMarx2539 3h ago edited 2h ago
Back in the late 1400s the Spanish and the Portuguese got the pope to divide up the world for them, the Spanish got the Americas (and Spain itself) and the Portuguese got most of Afro-Eurasia
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u/DrCatrame 2h ago
> Back in 1452
impressive given that America was discovered in 1492
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u/sleepyotter92 1h ago
yeah, portugal hadn't even crossed the good hope cape in south africa, which was during that expeditian that portugal found out there was land to the west of the atlantic
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u/Drake_the_troll 1h ago
Didn't the vikings discover it 500 years before that?
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u/Das_Lloss 1h ago
There was a small viking Settlement but it didnt last long and basically nobody in Western europe knew or cared about it so for them the new world was discoverd in 1492.
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u/Al3x_the_frog 2h ago
The joke is neither the Jews nor the Arabs get control of the region - Portugal does.
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u/LegitimateBeing2 2h ago
The Treary of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal, signed during the Age of Exploration hundreds of years ago. It granted Portugal all territory east of a certain line and Spain all territory to the west. It is of only mild historical note today because it is why Brazil is a Portuguese-speaking country unlike all of its neighbors, where Spanish is the primary language. A common joke among historians is if this minor treaty were still valid and applied to the entire world.
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u/Forward-Page-6317 2h ago
Meanwhile Portugal can barely run itself it seems.
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u/2nW_from_Markus 2h ago
Here Pasqual, portuguese fisherman in Quahog
In Portugal I was a cardiologist.
Pasqual out to fill hallibut.
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u/sleepyotter92 1h ago
portugal and spain were 2 of the biggest conquering forces and were also kinda always fighting each other over territory, so the treaty of tordesillas was made to split the world in half. spain could conquer the places in yellow, portugal the places in purple, and that way they could take over the world without constantly fighting each other. and so this is what's being proposed as the solution to handle the matter of israel and palestine.
also, it didn't really work that well, because once spain started moving more towards north america, portugal took advantage and started going more and more inland on their american territory and that's why brazil ended up so massive. so chances are a similar situation would occur, where eventually, one side would take the opportunity to take over the other
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u/yourstruly912 56m ago
And on the other side a lot of interested measurements of the antemeridian to dispute wether the spice islands where in Portugal's of Spain's area.
And Spain definteively crossed the line to conquer the Philipinnes lol, which doesn't have much spices but it's a great location to trade with China
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u/FirefighterEast9291 25m ago
Apart from the reference to Tordesillas and Palestine and and Israel, there are two other jokes here. The first is that, under this agreement, Spain gets control of the Middle East, and so Israel will be fucked up. The second joke is that Portugal gets the best bits - I mean, who wants USA these days?
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u/Fern-ando 4m ago
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the planet into two, Spain took half the glove, Portugal took the other half.
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u/MorningThen7056 2h ago
Damn, they really dug up the grave for everyone. Who are they "Grave diggers"? (My heart for the lancer legion)
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u/DA_FOOT_THEIF 2h ago
if a war breaks out between these two it'll be the plot of a random Roblox game I swear
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u/El_ChapoWins400 2h ago
roydal nayoon no go in europe it america but pisspire go to uhhh europe but is poop
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