Spain V Portugal

But.. spain started colonising first

Not true, Portugal started on the African coast first ;-)

Nope, sudern italy by the kingdom of aragon around the 1200s

Um, how? You do know Spain was controlled by Muslims up until the Reconquista of the 14th/15th C right? I doubt the Moors were letting people sail free around this time.......crossing the Mediterranean doesn't count lol

LOL you think it was instant? And you say you are a history major? explain this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Navarre and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista Do your reserch, buddy.

where was colombus from? smh

Italy, cause Spain wasnt known for their mariners, they hired them from Portugal and Italy actually

Spain just happens to have in it a autonomus community that was sailing along the american cost long before the age of exploration. And they where famous for the finest fishing and exploration ships in the iberian penintsula.

yeah no, don't argue with a history major, they Spanish didn't cross the Atlantic long before Columbus....and the finest fishing and exploration ships were made first by the Portuguese spurred by Prince Henry the Navigator in the early 1400s......

I dobut you are a history major, becouse you are completely wrong. Just becouse you watch oversimplified that doesn't mean you know evrithing.