Old World vs. New World: Time to Abolish These Outdated Concepts?
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Old World vs. New World: Time to Abolish These Outdated Concepts?
“New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, first adopted in European society after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492. Sixteenth-century European cartographers consolidated the terms, influenced by Europe’s assumption of superiority over the indigenous communities it had “discovered.” While the terms were temporally inaccurate, they successfully fram…
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