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The Portuguese colonization of the Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) Islands began from 1462. Initially envisaged as a base to give mariners direct access to West African trade, the Central Atlantic islands soon became a major hub of the Atlantic slave...

A c. 1646 watercolour painting showing the town of Ribeira Grande on Santiago, one of the islands of the Cape Verde archipelago, then a Portuguese colony. Painting by Caspar Schmalkalden, image by Arquipelagos. (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha)

A 1598 map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde, an archipelago in the Central Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. Drawn by Barent Langenes. (National Library of France, Paris)

Ribeira Principal stream on the island of Santiago, one of the Cape Verde Islands.

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century AD, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado, USA at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded...

São Francisco Church, Cidade Velha on Santiago, Cape Verde islands. Built in 1657 when the islands were a Portuguesecolony, it was restored in the early 21st century.

The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas (Tordesilhas) was an agreement between the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them into two spheres of influence. The imaginary dividing line ran down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean...

Hovenweep or Hovenweep National Monument is comprised of the ruins of six Ancestral Puebloan (or Anasazi) villages located on the border between southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah in what is the present-day United States. The home...

The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in the North American Continent. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa top for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began living...

Photogrammetry reconstruction from 2000 photos dataset from Cyark Open Heritage Project: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/cyark “Balcony House, with its well-preserved rooms, kivas, and plazas, stands as a tribute to those who...