Which continent did Columbus discover in the New World?

The New World is what Europeans call this new continent after discovering America and its adjacent islands at the end of 15. Before the discovery of the new continent, the American continent was unfamiliar to Europeans. Europeans generally believed that there were only three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa, and there were no other continents.

In recent decades, the name "New World" has been regarded by some people as Eurocentrism, which makes people feel that only the European view is correct. Therefore, its application is limited to some specific occasions: only when Columbus's voyage to the West and the Spanish conquest of Yucatan Peninsula are discussed from a historical perspective, people will use the word "New World" from a biological perspective.

Another view holds that the "new world" is "new" because it is relatively new to human beings: human beings have lived in the "old world" in Europe, Asia and Africa for much longer than people have lived in the American continent; Therefore, when the first ancient humans immigrated to America, they arrived in the New World.

Although America is a part of the New World, Australia may be divided into the New World or the Old World under different circumstances, especially New Zealand, because it was just inhabited by generations before Columbus arrived in America. From a biological point of view, Australia belongs to neither the new world nor the old world, because its animals and plants are far from those of Eurasia, Africa and America.