How did Globalization begin?

https://youtu.be/tK1enBVCxEE
 Link to the lecture video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1enBVCxEE&feature=youtu.be

NOTE: Video is 16 mins. long. I apologize for the length.

I did my best to make the slides as understandable as possible.
the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
1. that globalization is hardwired into humans

2. this is just a “new cycle”

3. important events
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization
❖ global religion, spread of culture, knowledge, art, architecture, etc.
 Our Contemporary World...
➢globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon of “increasing
interactions” gradually involving more people in more parts of
the world (explorations, silk road, colonization)
 The China Ship (Chapter 1)
https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html
How Magellan circumnavigated the globe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFdiX8mj0Es&t=34s
 the complex issue of the origin of
globalization

1. the rise and spread of

Christianity in the centuries
after the fall of the Roman
Empire;
2. the spread of Islam in the
seventh century and beyond;
 the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to
Globalization
3. the travels of the Vikings from
Europe to Iceland, Greenland, and
briefly to North America in the 9th to
11th Century as examples of, and
landmarks, in globalization;

SOURCES: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-
age/expeditions-and-raids/how-did-the-vikings-travel-around-in-the-world/
What's so special about Viking ships? - Jan Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kge0c2mNmRQ&list=PL3VGx-
rUqYrHrvWAxR_xf2hZH2oHjaPjw&index=21
 the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization

4. trade in the Middle Ages

throughout the
Mediterranean;
❖Mediterranean region was
an important sea route of
transport, trade and cultural
exchange between diverse
peoples encompassing three
continents: Western Asia,
North Africa, and Southern
Europe
the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization
 the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization

4. the activities of the banks of the 12th Century Italian

city-states (Venice, Genoa, Milan, Pisa, etc.)
▪ Because of trade in these places, became international trading and
banking hubs and intellectual crossroads.
▪ played a crucial innovative role in world financial developments,
devising the main instruments and practices of banking and the
emergence of new forms of social and economic organization.
▪ merchant banking, loans, investments useful in trading activities
during that period
▪ Geographically, and because of trade, Italian cities such as Venice
the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
the Mediterranean Region
 the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization
6. Silk Road: European traders like Marco Polo and his travels later in the
thirteenth century along the Silk Road to China
❖Colonization of the World/ Europe as the “superior” civilization
7. the “discovery of America” by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and other
important voyages of discovery
8. the circumnavigation of the globe completed in 1522 by one of Ferdinand
Magellan’s ships
9. European colonialism, especially in the 19th century;
The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world
through trade - Shannon Harris Castelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3e37VWc0k
the complex issue of the origin of
globalization
(Historical) EVENTS leading to Globalization
❖global catastrophies
8. the early twentieth-century global Spanish flu pandemic (killing
500M people);
9. the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century.