Sentence:  During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers , though ineffectively , just as the new nations of Africa and <WSD>Asia</WSD> protest them , with more effect , today . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations