There are several versions of the origin of the terms "Old" and "New World". According to one of them, they were introduced by Amerigo Vespucci in 1503, according to the other, Christopher Columbus used them back in 1492 to separate the known and new discovered lands. The expressions Old and New World were used for several centuries, until they completely went out of fashion and lost their relevance due to the discovery of new islands and continents.
Old World and New World: Geography
Europeans traditionally referred to the concept of the Old World as two continents - Eurasia and Africa, i.e. only those lands that were known before the discovery of the Americas, and to the New World - North and South America. These designations quickly became fashionable and widespread. The terms quickly became very capacious, they referred not only to the geographical concepts of the known and unknown world. The Old World began to call something generally known, traditional or conservative, the New World - something fundamentally new, little-studied, revolutionary.
In biology, it is also customary to divide the flora and fauna according to the geographical principle into the gifts of the Old and New Worlds. But unlike the traditional interpretation of the term, the New World biologically includes the plants and animals of Australia.
Later, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and a number of islands in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans were discovered. They did not become part of the New World and were designated by the broad term Southern Lands. At the same time, the term Unknown South Earth appeared - a theoretical continent at the South Pole. The ice continent was discovered only in 1820 and also did not become part of the New World. Thus, the terms Old and New Worlds refer not so much to geographical concepts as to the historical-time border "before and after" the discovery and development of the American continents.
Old World and New World: winemaking
Today, the terms Old and New World in a geographical sense are used only by historians. These concepts have acquired a new meaning in winemaking to designate the founding countries of the wine industry and countries developing in this direction. All European states, Georgia, Armenia, Iraq, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine traditionally belong to the Old World. To the New World - India, China, Japan, the countries of North, South America and Africa, as well as Australia and Oceania.
For example, Georgia and Italy are associated with wine, France with Champagne and Cognac, Ireland with whiskey, Switzerland and Great Britain with Scotland with absinthe, and Mexico is considered the ancestor of tequila.
In 1878, on the territory of Crimea, Prince Lev Golitsyn founded a plant for the production of sparkling wines, which was named "Novy Svet", later a resort village, which is called Novy Svet, grew around it. The picturesque bay annually receives crowds of tourists who want to relax on the Black Sea coast, get a tasting of the famous New World wines and champagne, walk along grottoes, bays and a reserved juniper grove. In addition, there are settlements of the same name on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
