GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Atlantic Slave Trade, Core Countries, Stone Age
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Module 2: world is extremely interconnected, most products require materials and resources found around the world e. g pencil. Trade relationships been around for centuries: atlantic slave trade, silk/spice trade, stone age and iron age civilizations engaged in long distance trade. Process of globalization increasing the speed, scope, and scale. Very often portrayed as a threat due to the rapid increase of threatening cultures with people and places fearing becoming homogenized mcdonaldization . Essentially use globally produced and marketed products that are the same on every continent. World-system is an interdependent system of countries linked by economic and political competition : concept developed in the 1970"s by immanuel wallerstein, instead of there being multiple worlds there is only one world intensively interconnected. In between core and peripheral: can and are exploited by different countries. Huge economic interdependence too: within a country can detect different types of regions, modern world-system began in the 16th century north-western europe.
