USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci is usually credited for coming up with the term “New World” (Mundus Novus) for the Americas in his 1503 letter, giving it its popular cachet, although similar terms had nonetheless been used and applied before him.

Detailed explanation-2: -North America and South America together are often called the “New World”. The label came about in the wake of European voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The Europeans discovered these two continents only in the late 15th century. So, to the Europeans, these lands were new compared to the older civilisations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Americas are the continents of the Western Hemisphere: North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean islands) and South America. Europeans called these continents the “New World, ” because at the time they were wholly unknown to people of the world’s other continents.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vespucci published two letters in 1503/1504 in which he described his voyages, and entitled Novus Mundus (thus coining the term “the New World").

Detailed explanation-5: -Old World refers to Europe, Africa, and Asia, while New World refers to North America, South America, and the Caribbean. This system of naming these two different “worlds” is largely Eurocentric.