Globalisation Has a Long History
Older than you think.
Not just the last 50 years: trade, migration, work and capital have linked the world for thousands of years.
↳ The global world was made over centuries.
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The Making of a Global World · Class 10 History
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Who Travelled, and Why
People on the move.
Travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims — for knowledge, opportunity, spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution.
↳ Movement had many motives.
What They Carried
More than goods.
Goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions — and germs and diseases.
↳ Links carried both gifts and dangers.
The World Shrinks
Smaller world, same size.
In the 1500s, European sailors found a sea route to Asia and crossed the western ocean to America — distant lands became closely linked.
↳ Shrinking = closer connection.
Indian Ocean Trade
India at the centre.
For centuries a bustling trade crossed the Indian Ocean; the Indian subcontinent was central to it. Europeans expanded or redirected some flows towards Europe.
↳ Europeans joined an existing network.
America Joins the World
Isolated for ages.
Cut off for millions of years, America's lands, crops and minerals began to transform trade from the sixteenth century.
↳ A new continent in world trade.
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The Pre-modern World: Silk Routes and Travelling Foods
Why the making of a global world has a long history: the early links of trade, faith and disease; the silk routes that joined Asia, Europe and northern Africa; and how foods such as noodles and potatoes travelled across…
- Globalisation is often thought of as an economic system of the last 50 years or so, but the making of the global world has a long history of…
- Since antiquity people have covered enormous distances — traders, priests, pilgrims and plain travellers — chasing knowledge, opportunity or…
- As early as 3000 BCE, coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilisation with present-day West Asia; cowries from the Maldives, used as curr…
~22 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Conquest, Disease and Trade: How the World Shrank in the Sixteenth Century
How European sea voyages in the sixteenth century 'shrank' the world, how the wealth of the Americas — especially silver — transformed trade, why germs like smallpox were the conquerors' deadliest weapon, why Europeans m…
- Two sixteenth-century voyages pulled the pre-modern world together — the sea route to Asia, and the crossing of the western ocean to America
- For centuries before, the Indian Ocean had a bustling trade in goods, people, knowledge and customs; the Indian subcontinent was central to…
- America, cut off from regular contact with the rest of the world for millions of years, began from the sixteenth century to transform trade…
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Beyond the Board Paper (Project): The World Economy from 1815 to Bretton Woods
Enrichment for the interdisciplinary project — not examined in the board paper. A short guide to the nineteenth-century world economy (three flows, the Corn Laws, technology, colonialism, rinderpest and indentured labour…
- The nineteenth-century world economy had three linked flows: trade (mostly in goods), labour (migration for work) and capital (investment ov…
- After Britain scrapped the Corn Laws, cheap imported food replaced British farming; vast lands were cleared abroad to grow food for Britain,…
- In 1885 European powers met in Berlin to divide Africa among themselves; rinderpest, a cattle disease that reached Africa in the late 1880s,…
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Why does the chapter argue that globalisation is not simply a recent development?
Intermediate
A The word globalisation was first used in the ancient Indus valley civilisation
B The world economy has not changed at all over the past thousand years
C Trade, migration and movement of capital have linked societies for thousands of years
D Modern companies have existed in the same form since before the Christian Era
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Trade, migration and movement of capital have linked societies for thousands of years
A long history of interconnection.
Consider the following reasons for travel in the pre-modern world. 1. Search for knowledge 2. Spiritual fulfilment 3. Escape from persecution Which of these are mentioned as reasons people travelled vast distances?
Intermediate
A 1, 2 and 3
B 1 and 2 only
C 2 and 3 only
D 1 and 3 only
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1, 2 and 3
All three, along with opportunity.
Which of the following did pre-modern travellers carry that could harm the societies they visited?
Beginner
A Silk cargoes
B Religious ideas
C Cowrie shells
D Germs and diseases
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Germs and diseases
Germs spread with people.
Which region was linked to present-day West Asia by coastal trade around 3000 BCE?
Beginner
A Southern China
B The Maldives
C The Indus valley
D East Africa
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The Indus valley
Indus valley civilisation.
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