Editing Atlantis (section)

====Early influential literature====
The term "[[utopia]]" (from "no place") was coined by [[Sir Thomas More]] in his sixteenth-century work of [[fiction]] ''[[Utopia (book)|Utopia]]''.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |author=Callahan, Tim |author2=Friedhoffer, Bob |author3=Pat Linse |year=2001 |title=The Search for Atlantis! |journal=Skeptic |volume=8 |issue=4 |page=96 |issn=1063-9330}}</ref> Inspired by [[Plato]]'s Atlantis and travelers' accounts of the [[Americas]], More described an imaginary land set in the [[New World]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Hoopes, John W. |chapter=Mayanism Comes of (New) Age |editor=Joseph Gelfer |title=2012: Decoding the Counterculture Apocalypse |year=2011 |location=London |publisher=Equinox Publishing |isbn=978-1-84553-639-8 |pages=38–59 [p. 46] }}</ref> His idealistic vision established a connection between the Americas and utopian societies, a theme that Bacon discussed in ''[[New Atlantis|The New Atlantis]]'' ({{circa|1623}}).<ref name="Hoopes 2011"/> A character in the narrative gives a history of Atlantis that is similar to Plato's and places Atlantis in America. People had begun believing that the [[Maya civilization|Mayan]] and [[Aztec]] ruins could possibly be the remnants of Atlantis.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>