Nuevo Mundo

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Nuevo Mundo is the Spanish term for the “New World,” historically referring to the Americas after their European discovery and exploration.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Mundo Nuevo 1
Nuevo Continente 1
Nuevo Mundo canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish term
exonym
historical term
appliedTo Caribbean
Central America
North America
South America
associatedWithConcept European discovery of the Americas
colonial expansion
transatlantic encounters
associatedWithEvent voyages of Christopher Columbus
broaderConcept Eurocentric world division
geopolitical regions
contrastsWith Old World
Viejo Mundo
denotes lands west of the Atlantic Ocean from a European perspective
equivalentTermInEnglish New World
etymologicallyFrom Spanish "mundo" meaning "world"
Spanish "nuevo" meaning "new"
fieldOfUse geography
historiography
history
literature
hasConnotation colonialism
novelty
territorial expansion
hasLanguage Spanish
hasPerspective Eurocentric viewpoint
historicalPeriodOfUsage late 15th century onward
opposedConcept Old World
refersTo Americas
Western Hemisphere
relatedTerm Mundo Nuevo
linked to: Nuevo Mundo

Nuevo Continente
linked to: Nuevo Mundo
semanticCategory historical geographic designation
toponymic expression
timeOfOrigin around the time of Iberian overseas expansion
usedBy European explorers
Spanish colonizers
usedIn Latin American historiography
Spanish colonial chronicles
Spanish-language historical texts
usedInContext Age of Discovery
linked to: Age of Exploration

European exploration of the Americas
Spanish colonial history

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New World hasEquivalentTerm Nuevo Mundo
Nuevo Mundo relatedTerm Mundo Nuevo
linked to: Nuevo Mundo
Nuevo Mundo relatedTerm Nuevo Continente
linked to: Nuevo Mundo