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  2. New World - Wikipedia

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    Historia antipodum oder newe Welt, or History of the New World, by Matthäus Merian the Elder, published in 1631. The Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci is usually credited for coming up with the term "New World" (Mundus Novus) for the Americas in his 1503 letter, giving it its popular cachet, although similar terms had been used and applied before him.

  3. Columbian exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian exchange of crop plants, livestock, and diseases in both directions between the Old World and the New World. In 1972, Alfred W. Crosby, an American historian at the University of Texas at Austin, published the book The Columbian Exchange, [2] thus coining the term. [1]

  4. Outline of the Post-War New World Map - Wikipedia

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    The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on February 25, 1942 [2] by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the ...

  5. New World Mining District - Wikipedia

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    The New World Mining District is an area of mineralization that sits within Gallatin National Forest to the northeast of Cooke City and Yellowstone National Park, in Park County, Montana, United States. The district hosts extensive deposits of gold, silver and copper in zones of carbonate replacement.

  6. List of countries by proven oil reserves - Wikipedia

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    Map of countries with proven oil reserves - according to US EIA (start of 2017) Trends in proven oil reserves in top five countries, 1980–2013 (data from US Energy Information Administration) A map of world oil reserves according to OPEC, January 2014

  7. List of GIS data sources - Wikipedia

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    Data from the World Resources Institute includes: percentage tree-cover, population density and tree cover, share of wood in fuel consumption, etc. SoilGrids1km - soil property and class maps SoilGrids1km is a collection of updatable soil property and class maps of the world at a resolution of 1 km produced using state-of-the-art model-based ...

  8. Mining in Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    The Solwara 1 Project is located at 1600 metres water depth in the Bismarck Sea, New Ireland Province. [22] It will be the world's first deep sea mining project, with first production expected in 2013. [22] [23] The resource is high grade copper-gold resource and the world's first Seafloor Massive Sulphide (SMS) resource. [22]

  9. New World crops - Wikipedia

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    New World crops are those crops, food and otherwise, that are native to the New World (mostly the Americas) and were not found in the Old World before 1492 AD. Many of these crops are now grown around the world and have often become an integral part of the cuisine of various cultures in the Old World .