ORIGINS AND

HISTORY OF
GLOBALIZATION
Bien, Jasmine M.
BSED I- Filipino
HARDWIRED
 According to Nayan Chanda (2007),
It is because of our basic human
need to make our lives better that
made globalization possible.
Therefore, one can trace the
beginning of globalization from our
ancestors in Africa who walked out
from the said continent in the late
Ice Age. This long journey finally led
them to all. Known continents
today, roughly after 50,000 years.
Chanda (2007) mentioned
that commerce, religion,
Politics, and warfare are the
“urges” of people toward
A better life. These are
respectively connected to
four aspects of globalization
and they can be traced all
Throughout history: Trade,
missionary work,
adventures, and conquest.
CYCLES
 For some, globalization isa a long term cyclical
process and thus, finding its origin will be a
daunting task. What is important is the cycles that
globalization has gone through (Scholte, 2005).
Subscribing to this view will suggest adherence to
the idea that other global ages have appeared.
There is also the notion to suspect that this point
of globalization will soon disappear and reppear.
EPOCHS
 Ritzer (2015) cited Therborn’s (2000) six great
epochs of globalization. These are also called
“waves” and each has its own origin. Today’s
globalization is not unique if this is the case. The
different of this view from the second view
(cycles) is that it does not treat epochs as
returning.
 The following are the sequential occurrence of the epochs:

1. Globalization of religion (fourth to seventh centuries)

2. European colonial conquests ( late fifteenth century)
3. Intra-European wars ( late fifteenth to early nineteenth
centuries)
4. Heyday of European Imperialism ( mid- nineteenth century to
1918)
5. Post- World War II period
6. Post- Cold War period
EVENTS
 Specific events are also considered as part of the fourth
view in explaining the origin of globalization. If this is
the case, then several points can be treated as the start of
globalization. Gibbon (1998), for example, argued that
Roman conquests centuries before Christ were its origin.
In an issue of the magazine the Economist (2006,
January 12), it considered the rampage of the armies of
Genghis Khan into Eastern Europe in the thirteenth
century.
 Rosenthal (2007) gave premium to voyages of discovery Christopher
Columbus’s discovery of America in 1942, Vasco da Gma in Cape of
Good Hope in 1498, and Ferdinand Magellan’s completed
circumnavigation of the globe in 1522. The recent years could also be
regarded as the beginnings of globalization with reference to specific
technological advances in transportation and communication. Some
examples include the first transatlantic telephone cable (1956), the first
transatlantic television broadcasts (1962), the founding of the modern
Internet in 1988, and the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on New
York (2001). Certainly, with this view, more and more specific events will
characterize not just the origin of globalization but also more of its
history.
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