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The New World countries were lands in The Americas, Africa and Australasia which were colonised by the Europeans in the early 16th Century.The Europeans took possession of these countries and introduced European farming practices.

Australia became one of the new world countries where, from the sixteenth century, Europeans saw the oppurtunity to acquire land. This movement of Europeans to new world countries has been called the 'great land rush' by historian John C. Weaver.