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• The term originated in the early 16th century after Europeans made landfall in what would later be called the Americas in the age of discovery, expanding the geographical horizon of classical geographers, who had thought of the world as consisting of Africa, Europe, and Asia, collectively now referred to as the Old World (aka Afro-Eurasia)
• The term was first coined by Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci
• The Americas were also referred to as the "fourth part of the world"