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Map of the "Old World" (the 2nd-century Ptolemy world map in a 15th-century copy)
This T and O map , from the first printed version of Isidore 's Etymologiae (Augsburg , 1472), identifies the three known continents (Asia , Europe and Africa ) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem (Shem ), Iafeth (Japheth ) and Cham (Ham ).
The "Old World " (Latin : Mundus Vetus ) is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas .[1] It is used to contrast the continents of Africa , Europe , and Asia in the Eastern Hemisphere , previously thought of by inhabitants of European descent as comprising the entire world, with the "New World ", a term for the newly encountered lands of the Western Hemisphere , particularly the Americas.[2] While located closer to Afro-Eurasia within the Eastern Hemisphere, Australia is considered neither an Old World nor a New World land, since the phrase was coined by Europeans after the distinction had been made upon their discovery of the already inhabited lands; both Australia and Antarctica were associated instead with the Terra Australis that had been posited as a hypothetical southern continent.
Etymology [ edit ]
In the context of archaeology and world history , the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in (indirect) cultural contact from the Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations , mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels north, in the area of the Mediterranean , including North Africa . It also included Mesopotamia , the Persian plateau , the Indian subcontinent , China , and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa .
These regions were connected via the Silk Road trade route, and they had a pronounced Iron Age period following the Bronze Age. In cultural terms, the Iron Age was accompanied by the so-called Axial Age , referring to cultural, philosophical and religious developments eventually leading to the emergence of the historical Western (Hellenism , "classical "), Near Eastern (Zoroastrian and Abrahamic ) and Far Eastern (Hinduism , Buddhism , Jainism , Sikhism , Confucianism , Taoism ) cultural spheres .
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The mainland of Afro-Eurasia (excluding islands or island groups such as the British Isles , Japan , Sri Lanka , Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago ) has been referred to as the World Island . The term may have been coined by Sir Halford John Mackinder in The Geographical Pivot of History .[3]
References [ edit ]
^ "New world" . Merriam-Webster Dictionary . Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2013 .
^ See Francis P. Sempa, "Mackinder's World" Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine . American Diplomacy (UNC.edu). Retrieved 8 September 2018.
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_World&oldid=1233917125 "
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