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The term referring to the Americas following European contact in the late 15th century, encompassing North and South America along with their associated islands. This vast landmass represented unprecedented opportunities for European powers through colonization, resource extraction, and settlement, while simultaneously resulting in catastrophic demographic collapse of indigenous populations through disease, warfare, and displacement. The New World's discovery and subsequent integration into global systems fundamentally altered world history, creating new societies through the complex interaction of European, Indigenous, and African peoples and cultures.