New World

The New World or the Americas is the term used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth that is featured in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, Age of Empires III and its expansions. The New World was concidered a land of new life for many people because it had wide open land to explore, an adbundance of resources, and a chance to trade with the Native Americans that thrived there.

Game Info
The New World was first featured in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors which took place during the timeline of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán with 2 Native American civilizations, the Aztecs and the Mayans. In Age of Empires III the entire game takes places after the conquest of the Meso-America and to the Industrial Age and the expansion into western North America. There are many new maps of the New World featured in Age of Empires III such as New England and Texas with new animals to hunt, new people ally with, and large invasions with the new gunpowder weapons involved.

Real Info
The first discovery of the New World was done by Christopher Columbus of Spain in 1493 in the island of Hispanola and after later travels Columbus called the land "New World". In 1524, the term was also used by Giovanni da Verrazzano in a record of his voyage that year along the coast of what would later become the United States and Canada.

The first major conquest of the New World started by the Spanish and the Portuguese. In the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, ratified by the Pope, these two kingdoms divided the entire non-European world between themselves, with a line drawn through South America. Based on this Treaty, and the claims by Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa to all lands touching the Pacific Ocean, the Spanish rapidly conquered territory, overthrowing the Aztec and Incan Empires to gain control of much of western South America, Central America and Mexico by the mid-16th century, in addition to its earlier Caribbean conquests. Over this same timeframe, Portugal conquered much of eastern South America, naming it Brazil.

Soon other European nations soon disputed the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, which they had not negotiated. The British and the French attempted to plant colonies in the Americas in the 16th century, but these met with failure. However, in the following century, the two kingdoms, along with the Dutch, succeeded in establishing permanent colonies. Some of these were on Caribbean islands, which had often already been conquered by the Spanish or depopulated by disease, while others were in eastern North America, which had not been colonized by Spain north of Florida.

Soon as more civilizations gained interest in the colonization of the New World the competition for territory became increasingly fierce. Colonists often faced the threat of attacks from neighboring colonies, as well as from indigenous tribes and pirates.

As more nations gained an interest in the colonization of the Americas, competition for territory became increasingly fierce. Colonists often faced the threat of attacks from neighboring colonies, as well as from indigenous tribes and pirates.