Why Early Globalization Matters: Crash Course Big History #206
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Stella
Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
As a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalization is considered by some as a form of capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy.
Globalization has grown due to advances in transportation and communication technology.
With the increased global interactions comes the growth of international trade, ideas, and culture.
Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that's associated with social and cultural aspects.
However, conflicts and diplomacy are also large parts of the history of globalization, and modern globalization.
Economically, globalization involves goods, services, the economic resources of capital, technology, and data.
Also, the expansions of global markets liberalize the economic activities of the exchange of goods and funds.
Removal of cross-border trade barriers has made formation of global markets more feasible.
The steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships are some of the advances in the means of transport while the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones show development in telecommunications infrastructure.
All of these improvements have been major factors in globalization and have generated further interdependence of economic and cultural activities around the globe.
Though many scholars place the origins of globalization in modern times, others trace its history long before the European Age of Discovery and voyages to the New World, some even to the third millennium BC.
Large-scale globalization began in the 1820s.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the connectivity of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly.
The term globalization is recent, only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s.
In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge.
Further, environmental challenges such as global warming, cross-boundary water, air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment.
Academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.
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Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
As a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalization is considered by some as a form of capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy.
Globalization has grown due to advances in transportation and communication technology.
With the increased global interactions comes the growth of international trade, ideas, and culture.
Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that's associated with social and cultural aspects.
However, conflicts and diplomacy are also large parts of the history of globalization, and modern globalization.
Economically, globalization involves goods, services, the economic resources of capital, technology, and data.
Also, the expansions of global markets liberalize the economic activities of the exchange of goods and funds.
Removal of cross-border trade barriers has made formation of global markets more feasible.
The steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships are some of the advances in the means of transport while the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones show development in telecommunications infrastructure.
All of these improvements have been major factors in globalization and have generated further interdependence of economic and cultural activities around the globe.
Though many scholars place the origins of globalization in modern times, others trace its history long before the European Age of Discovery and voyages to the New World, some even to the third millennium BC.
Large-scale globalization began in the 1820s.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the connectivity of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly.
The term globalization is recent, only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s.
In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge.
Further, environmental challenges such as global warming, cross-boundary water, air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment.
Academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.
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Sassy
Perfect explanation on why we, as Americans, are Eurocentric! Of course, there was Little cross cultural learning between Americans and Europeans so the more numerous population made the lasting effect. Duh! It's obvious if you think about it! But we often don't stop to wonder how things might have been different.
Question? What was happening in Africa? Stereotyping in many history books over the last 100 years or more (up to and including 20 years ago for me) doesnt mention Africa's contributions to the World Zone's collective learning unless it's the Egyptian Civilization or the diaspora of early humans. Both great! But that's not all, is it? Only recently have I heard and in one sentence here are the West African Empire(s) mentioned. Nubia? Ivory coast? Further south? Any information to expand in what context these regions added to Collective Learning? Only After) slave trade? Arab influence? Colonization? Just curious! Cause I've no idea When these regions might have added to Collective Learning and to what extent.
And maybe more rounded information about influence of/on Eastern Europe and the Steppes and SE Asia. SOME of these areas (like central Africa) were not densely populated so, I'd have to Assume that's why history texts skip over them. True? I don't know!
It would be nice if we all understood the influences Every culture had in the development of All the others. Thanks for what you do! Ya'll never FTBA!
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Perfect explanation on why we, as Americans, are Eurocentric! Of course, there was Little cross cultural learning between Americans and Europeans so the more numerous population made the lasting effect. Duh! It's obvious if you think about it! But we often don't stop to wonder how things might have been different.
Question? What was happening in Africa? Stereotyping in many history books over the last 100 years or more (up to and including 20 years ago for me) doesnt mention Africa's contributions to the World Zone's collective learning unless it's the Egyptian Civilization or the diaspora of early humans. Both great! But that's not all, is it? Only recently have I heard and in one sentence here are the West African Empire(s) mentioned. Nubia? Ivory coast? Further south? Any information to expand in what context these regions added to Collective Learning? Only After) slave trade? Arab influence? Colonization? Just curious! Cause I've no idea When these regions might have added to Collective Learning and to what extent.
And maybe more rounded information about influence of/on Eastern Europe and the Steppes and SE Asia. SOME of these areas (like central Africa) were not densely populated so, I'd have to Assume that's why history texts skip over them. True? I don't know!
It would be nice if we all understood the influences Every culture had in the development of All the others. Thanks for what you do! Ya'll never FTBA!
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Donna
Why the mention of the claim of Chinese people off the coast of South America, when there is little evidence of this, but no mention of the Norsemen who actually colonized North America long before Columbus? Or did I just miss that part? That's a much more substantiated claim. There's physical evidence and although they didn't stay permanently, neither did the Chinese (IF they even made it to the Americas, which I doubt, due to the sheer size of the Pacific, and, again, the lack of evidence of which I'm aware. The Vikings were people of the sea, and they traveled the North Atlantic in shorter segments, moving from Iceland to Greenland to North America and colonizing as they went. The Chinese were not known for being people of the sea. The Japanese, maybe, but I just don't believe the Chinese made it across the Pacific.
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Why the mention of the claim of Chinese people off the coast of South America, when there is little evidence of this, but no mention of the Norsemen who actually colonized North America long before Columbus? Or did I just miss that part? That's a much more substantiated claim. There's physical evidence and although they didn't stay permanently, neither did the Chinese (IF they even made it to the Americas, which I doubt, due to the sheer size of the Pacific, and, again, the lack of evidence of which I'm aware. The Vikings were people of the sea, and they traveled the North Atlantic in shorter segments, moving from Iceland to Greenland to North America and colonizing as they went. The Chinese were not known for being people of the sea. The Japanese, maybe, but I just don't believe the Chinese made it across the Pacific.
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Donna
I was also surprised you didn't mention the Columbian Exchange, since that started the whole devastation of ecosystems from the spread of invasive species which is still continuing today! That's had a huge impact on other species (driving species to extinction or near extinction, and Big History isn't just about humans! We are now fighting everywhere to protect native species and to remove or control invasive species. I could do a video about this myself (Asian carp, the kakapo, kudzu, garlic mustard, the introduction of cats and other carnivores, Japanese honeysuckle, the Emerald Ash Borer, the American chestnut, etc, but you guys could do it so much better with your animations. Plus you might know of examples I don't.
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I was also surprised you didn't mention the Columbian Exchange, since that started the whole devastation of ecosystems from the spread of invasive species which is still continuing today! That's had a huge impact on other species (driving species to extinction or near extinction, and Big History isn't just about humans! We are now fighting everywhere to protect native species and to remove or control invasive species. I could do a video about this myself (Asian carp, the kakapo, kudzu, garlic mustard, the introduction of cats and other carnivores, Japanese honeysuckle, the Emerald Ash Borer, the American chestnut, etc, but you guys could do it so much better with your animations. Plus you might know of examples I don't.
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motley416
Globalization is something different than Globalism, which, is the continuing task of the most powerful people on the planet to reduce the rest of us to abject servitude with no rights, no self determination, and no relevance exceeding that cattle. This video is more about the roll played by collective learning, the black plague, and potatoes in globalization, which is the increasing integration of different areas of the world into a global economy. I find the confusion of these two words understandable and amusing. I am glad people are leery of what might go horribly wrong as thing progress. They should be.
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Globalization is something different than Globalism, which, is the continuing task of the most powerful people on the planet to reduce the rest of us to abject servitude with no rights, no self determination, and no relevance exceeding that cattle. This video is more about the roll played by collective learning, the black plague, and potatoes in globalization, which is the increasing integration of different areas of the world into a global economy. I find the confusion of these two words understandable and amusing. I am glad people are leery of what might go horribly wrong as thing progress. They should be.
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David
Recently revealed personal accounts from the early European settlers include observations of farming practices being used in Australia. There were selective grasses grown for grain and grinding stones that have been dated before the Egyptians started. Unfortunately the English law at the time required a status of terra nullis to claim the new found land. The grasses grown were better adapted to the harsh Australian climate but with the introduction of grazing sheep and cattle the grasses were eaten out.
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Recently revealed personal accounts from the early European settlers include observations of farming practices being used in Australia. There were selective grasses grown for grain and grinding stones that have been dated before the Egyptians started. Unfortunately the English law at the time required a status of terra nullis to claim the new found land. The grasses grown were better adapted to the harsh Australian climate but with the introduction of grazing sheep and cattle the grasses were eaten out.
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EVZYL
Emily SUCKS. Please go back to the original John Green approach: just verifiable facts. Please NO more sanctimonious glorification of the 'noble indigeni' who were killed, speculation about the glorious works they could have produced had they survived. What are you referring to, Emily? Have you conveniently forgotten about their 'glorious' history of human sacrifices? Countless innocent children dragged up volcanoes and turned into mummies there?
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Emily SUCKS. Please go back to the original John Green approach: just verifiable facts. Please NO more sanctimonious glorification of the 'noble indigeni' who were killed, speculation about the glorious works they could have produced had they survived. What are you referring to, Emily? Have you conveniently forgotten about their 'glorious' history of human sacrifices? Countless innocent children dragged up volcanoes and turned into mummies there?
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David
You lost me when you said -as some historians assert, before the Chinese sailed off the coasts of America. - There are no historians of China (including in China) who assert this, only a publicity-seeking hoaxer (Gavin Menzies) with no knowledge of Chinese, and nothing more than fake maps and a feeling in his left hip that the Chinese must have sailed to America because there are currents that would take them there.
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You lost me when you said -as some historians assert, before the Chinese sailed off the coasts of America. - There are no historians of China (including in China) who assert this, only a publicity-seeking hoaxer (Gavin Menzies) with no knowledge of Chinese, and nothing more than fake maps and a feeling in his left hip that the Chinese must have sailed to America because there are currents that would take them there.
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Motz
CrashCourse BigHistory should be a mandatory subject in high school for everybody! It broadens your horizons which makes you IMHO a better human being making you see the big picture of the universe, evolution, human history, how it all unfolded
(or at least trying to)
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CrashCourse BigHistory should be a mandatory subject in high school for everybody! It broadens your horizons which makes you IMHO a better human being making you see the big picture of the universe, evolution, human history, how it all unfolded
(or at least trying to)
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Brian
Recommended reading for this lesson: -The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century- by Thomas Friedman. You may not agree with everything Friedman has to say-I know I don-t-but the book is a fascinating examination of globalization and its effects.
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Recommended reading for this lesson: -The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century- by Thomas Friedman. You may not agree with everything Friedman has to say-I know I don-t-but the book is a fascinating examination of globalization and its effects.
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