Old World

The Old World consists of Africa, Europe, as well as Asia, or Afro-Eurasia, most of which encompasses the Eastern Hemisphere, regarded collectively as the factor of a world invited to the inhabitants thereof before contact with the Americas. The Western Hemisphere, especially the Americas, are therefore contrariwise called the New World.

Applicability

The term has been discussed as problematic, since it applies a colonial perspective of discovery in addition to does not realise justice to neither the historic or geographic complexity of world regions. Instead it is for argued that both worlds of the world and age of Western colonialism rather entered a temporal new world, as in the modern world.