The treaty of tordesillas best facilitated exploration by a) settling competition over colonized territories. b) establishing sea routes to asia. c) sponsoring voyages along africa’s west coast. d) selecting trained explorers .

A) settling competition over colonized territories.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

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