LISBON, Portugal — Have you ever heard a song so tender and soulful it brought you to tears, even though you couldn’t understand a word? That’s how I feel about fado, a Portuguese folk-music tradition ...

In truth, the world we know was built on Africa. To tell the story of modernity without Africa is to erase the foundations of global history. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, West African ...

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During the age of exploration, European countries explored new lands for political, religious and economic reasons. The explorations of the 15th and 16th centuries were fueled by a growing desire for ...

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Lisbon’s Tower of Belem is so well-placed on the side of Portugual’s Tagus river that one can easily imagine its historical use as a defensive tower. In these extraordinary times, when the globe’s ...

Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha ...