GEOG 4086 Lecture : Notes On Globalization Essay
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Questioning if globalization is a new phenomenon and what constitutes the beginning. Emergence of 2 additional social class and structures who directed their energy toward producing new technologies while the bureaucrats delegated means of warfare. Invention of writing and the wheel (allowed for further infrastructure, transportation, spread of ideas and innovations) occurred around the same time (ex. Geography started to play a key role in trade (along eurasia"s axis) Networks of economic and cultural exchange triggered migration . Term modernity came about between the enlightenment and. Facilitated the exchange of culture, technology, commodities & disease. New inventions began to emerge which led to population increase and rapid growth in urban centers. New liberal ideas started to spread as the cc reigned with less power. Implemented social institutions that paved the way for the capitalist world system. African slave trade brought migration and disease and different cultural practices. Around 1648 the westphalian state system emerged as a sovereign nation-state.
