The Western World, North and South America
Columbus’s discovery launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. The most significant comparison components of these two land masses is the time and reason of discovery, cardinal direction of naming, and clearly, geographical locations. Hence them both being named “America” but differing in longitudinal coordinates. Other than these two super continents having immense …show more content…
North America and South America contrast heavily as these two super continents share few particulars. North America is immensely urbanized with modern technology cultivating new ways of life, literally, within the past one hundred years. Because North America has so many unrelated and dissimilar cultures, the continent is often referred to as a "melting pot" in which so many different cultures have contributed independent concepts. South America is currently following the customs of the Spanish, Portuguese, African and French cultures who first discovered and inhabited the land. South America may have a mixed background in discovery and identification, but the continent shares many notions today. Such as, ninety percent of the continent practicing Roman Catholicism, essentially the entire continent speaking Spanish, and love for the Arts; baseball, mariachi bands, ballroom dancing, and cuisine. South America is capable of available technological advances, however, they do not quite capitalize on it as profoundly as North
Columbus’s discovery launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. The most significant comparison components of these two land masses is the time and reason of discovery, cardinal direction of naming, and clearly, geographical locations. Hence them both being named “America” but differing in longitudinal coordinates. Other than these two super continents having immense …show more content…
North America and South America contrast heavily as these two super continents share few particulars. North America is immensely urbanized with modern technology cultivating new ways of life, literally, within the past one hundred years. Because North America has so many unrelated and dissimilar cultures, the continent is often referred to as a "melting pot" in which so many different cultures have contributed independent concepts. South America is currently following the customs of the Spanish, Portuguese, African and French cultures who first discovered and inhabited the land. South America may have a mixed background in discovery and identification, but the continent shares many notions today. Such as, ninety percent of the continent practicing Roman Catholicism, essentially the entire continent speaking Spanish, and love for the Arts; baseball, mariachi bands, ballroom dancing, and cuisine. South America is capable of available technological advances, however, they do not quite capitalize on it as profoundly as North