New World

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But in doing so he has reopened a fierce debate over the colonisation of the New World.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Nonnative livestock — not just horses and cows but also donkeys, pigs and sheep — thrived in the vast grasslands, plains and deserts of the New World.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Historians sometimes date the inception of the modern world to 1492, the year of Columbus’s departure for the New World.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

By 1854, Cuba was one of Spain’s few remaining New World colonies, and Southern expansionists coveted it—and its lucrative sugar plantations—as a new U.S. slave state.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

If New World isn’t sposed to have been wiped out, where is everybody?

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness